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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.
8 de mar. de 2017 · Als Anwalt Charles Hamilton Houston die Ungleichheit der Segregation aufzeigen wollte, präsentierte er nicht nur Argumente in einem Gerichtssaal. Während er Brown gegen das Board of Education argumentierte, nahm Houston eine Kamera in ganz South Carolina, um Beispiele für Ungleichheit zu identifizieren, die in öffentlichen Schulen von Afroamerikanern und Weißen besteht.
In the fall of 1924, Professor Charles Houston began teaching “Agency,” “Surety and Mortgages,” “Jurisprudence,” and “Administrative Law” to first- and second-year law students at Howard. Houston demanded a lot from his students.
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.
30 de sept. de 2011 · When Charles Hamilton Houston appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1938 to argue the landmark case Gaines v. Missouri , first in a line of cases culminating in Brown v. Board of Education , Associate Justice James McReynolds “turned his chair around rather than face a black man,” Payton said, adding, “There are hostile courts, and then there are hostile courts.”
7 de dic. de 2020 · This video is about how Charles Hamilton Houston laid the foundations for the historic 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education Topeka, KS decision. Everyone rememb...
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Lieutenant Houston in Artillery Unit, World War I. During World War I, Houston was an artillery officer in France. He witnessed and endured the racial prejudice inflicted on black soldiers. These encounters fueled his determination to use the law as an instrument of social change. (Lent by Charles Hamilton Houston Jr.) Back to Charles Hamilton ...
