Charles Hamilton Houston

Charles Hamilton Houston was born in Washington, D.C., in 1895 and became one of the nation’s most brilliant attorneys. A graduate of Harvard Law School, where he served at the first Black editor of the Harvard Law Review. Houston believed that legal action could be used to dismantle racial injustice. As vice dean of the Howard University School of Law, he trained a generation of civil rights lawyers, including Thurgood Marshall, the first Black American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court .Houston developed the legal strategy that challenged the doctrine of “separate but equal” and systematically attacked segregation in America’s courts. Though he died in 1950, four years before Brown v. Board of Education, his scholarship and diligence laid the framework for this landmark decision. Today, Charles Hamilton Houston is remembered as the man who killed Jim Crow.The Joy Trip Project celebrates the enduring legacy of Black American History. The Unhidden Minute is part of the Unhidden Podcast Project supported through a National Geographic Explorer Grant from the National Geographic Society, with the cooperation of the National Park Service. This series elevates the untold stories of Black American historical figures, events and cultural contributions.#unhiddenblackhistory #NationalParkService #yourparkstory #NationalGeographic #unhiddenminuteBecome a paid subscriber to the Unhidden Minute Podcast for one year and receive a copy of The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors 10th Anniversary Edition by James Edward Mills. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jamesedwardmills.substack.com/subscribe