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1. Charles Hamilton Houston was a prominent civil rights lawyer and activist known for his work in dismantling racial segregation in the United States. He played a crucial role in laying the legal groundwork for the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, which led to the desegregation of public schools. 2.
Charles Hamilton Houston (1895–1950) was the chief strategist of the NAACP’s legal campaign that culminated in the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Born in Washington, D.C., he graduate from Amherst College in 1915.
CHARLES HAMILTON HOUSTON. You have a large number of people who never heard of Charlie Houston. But you're going to hear about him. [T]hat man was the engineer of all of it... if you do it legally, Charlie Houston made it possible.... -- Thurgood Marshall.
A lthough Charles Hamilton Houston did not live to see Plessy v. Ferguson overturned in the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, he is famously known in history as “The Man Who Killed Jim Crow.” Houston mentored a generation of Black attorneys including, Thurgood Marshall.
Biography. “A lawyer’s either a social engineer, or he’s a parasite on society,” wrote Charles Hamilton Houston. Though trained as an attorney, he proved to be a formidable social engineer, establishing the strategy that ultimately took down the legal foundations of segregation in the United States, particularly in the field of education.
April 22, 1950. Place of Burial: Suitland, MD. Cemetery Name: Lincoln Memorial Cemetery. While Charles Hamilton Houston did not actively argue the Brown decision, he is given credit for laying the ground work that led to the NAACP strategy. Houston has been called “The Man who Killed Jim Crow” for his work in helping to end segregation.
