CHARLES HAMILTON HOUSTON
Name: Charles Houston
Born: 3 September 1895
Died: 22 April 1950
Charles Hamilton Houston (September 3, 1895-April 22, 1950) was an African
American lawyer, Dean of Howard University Law School and NAACP Litigation
Director who helped play a role in dismantling the Jim Crow laws and helped
train future Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall. He was educated at Amherst
College, where he was valedictorian, and at Harvard Law School, where he
graduated cum laude and was a member of the Harvard Law Review. Known as "The
Man Who Killed Jim Crow.", he played a role in nearly every civil rights case
before the Supreme Court between 1930 and Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
Houston's brilliant plan to attack and defeat Jim Crow segregation by using the
inequality of the "separate but equal" doctrine (from the Supreme Court's Plessy
v. Ferguson decision) as it pertained to public education in the United States
was the masterstroke that brought about the landmark Brown decision.
Name: Charles Houston
Born: 3 September 1895
Died: 22 April 1950
Charles Hamilton Houston (September 3, 1895-April 22, 1950) was an African
American lawyer, Dean of Howard University Law School and NAACP Litigation
Director who helped play a role in dismantling the Jim Crow laws and helped
train future Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall. He was educated at Amherst
College, where he was valedictorian, and at Harvard Law School, where he
graduated cum laude and was a member of the Harvard Law Review. Known as "The
Man Who Killed Jim Crow.", he played a role in nearly every civil rights case
before the Supreme Court between 1930 and Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
Houston's brilliant plan to attack and defeat Jim Crow segregation by using the
inequality of the "separate but equal" doctrine (from the Supreme Court's Plessy
v. Ferguson decision) as it pertained to public education in the United States
was the masterstroke that brought about the landmark Brown decision.