Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Black History Icon

Charles Hamilton Houston
Lawyer
September 3, 1895 - Aprill 22, 1950

Charles H. Houston was the First Black Editor of the Harvard Law Review, a Dean at Howard University Law School and the NAACP Litigation Director. Mr. Houston had a significant role in deciding the Jim Crow Laws. He later went on to train the future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

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