Charles Hamilton Houston Sr. was an American lawyer. He was the dean of Howard University Law School and the first special counsel of the NAACP. A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, Houston played a significant role in dismantling Jim Crow laws, especially combating segregation in s
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