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Charles Hamilton Houston – Biography

Charles Hamilton Houston – Biography

Charles Hamilton Houston (1895–1950) was the chief strategist of the NAACP’s legal campaign that culminated in the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Born in Washington, D.C., he graduate from Amherst College in 1915. In 1923 he became the first African American to earn a Doctor of Juridical Science degree at Harvard, where he studied under … Continue reading