My Education

[Charles Hamilton Houston]

-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 became the first African- American to be an editor of the Harvard Law Review. 

- I began studying at the University of Madrid in 1924. Shortly after, I was selected to be in District of Columbia bar and began practicing law with my father.

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