Charles Hamilton Houston's Blog – June 2013 Archive (8)

I played a major role in deciding what legal strategy should be used in civil right cases. My work helped convince judges to rule for the NAACP. I set out to create a law school that trained African American lawyers dedicated to winning equal rights. I was responsible for inspiring dozens of lawyers to spend their careers working for civil rights.  Altman, Susan, and Susan Altman. Extraordinary African- Americans. Canada: Children's Press, 2001. Print. (page…

I died of a heart attack on April 22,1950 at the age of 50. I had a heart condition and my doctors told me I should rest but I disagreed because I wanted to keep on fighting for civil rights. I said "I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8yiLq8GufI

I was a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and so was Barack Obama.…

I was a lawyer that worked in Washington D.C.  First, I was the first African American to work at the Harvard Law Review. After I was accepted into the District of Colombia bar and began practicing law with my father. I also began education Africa American students and teachers at Howard Law. Later I began working on famous Supreme Court cases such as University of Maryland v. Murray and Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada. These wins led to the Brown v. Board of Education which I…

-I went to Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C.

-I began attending Amherst College in 1911. I was part of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. In 1915 I graduated as valedictorian.

-I returned to D.C. and taught English at Howard University from 1915 to 1917.

-I was a US officer in WWI and was sent to France.

- In 1919 I returned and began taking classes at Howard University. I earned my Bachelor of Laws degree in 1922 and my Doctor of Laws degree in 1923. 

- I…

"The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried."

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My goal was to fight the "separate but equal" doctrine and get equal civil rights for everyone.

Check out this webpage. http://www.charleshamiltonhouston.org/about/

It's the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice. It began in 2005 at Harvard Law School. It continues my unfinished work.

My greatest accomplishment was ending the Jim Crow Laws. After studying at Harvard, I became the first African American to edit the Harvard Law Review. I didn't want to stop there though. I wanted to keep on moving on with my fight for civil rights. Shortly after, I became the vice-dean of Howard Law School. At Howard, I brought our country's most powerful African American litigators and teachers. Being a primarily white law school, them being professors would have most likely been…