Charles Hamilton Houston

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Charles Hamilton Houston Sr. (September 3, 1895 – April 22, 1950) 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 schools and racial housing covenants. He earned the title "The Man Who Killed Jim Crow". Houston is also well known for having trained and mentored a generation of black attorneys, including Thurgood Marshall, future founder and director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the first Black Supreme Court Justice. He recruited young lawyers to work on the NAACP's litigation campaigns, building connections between Howard University's and Harvard University's law schools.

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