My Profession

[Charles Hamilton Houston]

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 laid the foundation down for.

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