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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.