Houston, Charles Hamilton
1895-1950 · Contribution: 1930s-1940s
Law & Civil Rights
Architected the legal strategy that dismantled segregation; mentored Thurgood Marshall and a generation of civil rights lawyers
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Quick facts
- Born
- 1895-1950
- Category
- Law & Civil Rights
Impact on the world
Houston built the legal strategy and trained the lawyers that overturned 'separate but equal,' making him the intellectual architect of the courtroom civil-rights revolution.
Sources
- NAACP (official history)
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