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 played a
significant role in dismantling the Jim Crow laws and trained future
Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall.
Houston was born in Washington, D.C. His father worked as a lawyer.
Houston started at Amherst
College in
1911, was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society, and graduated as
valedictorian in 1915. He...
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