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Charles H. Houston, 1895-1950
The son of a prominent Howard University law professor, Charles H. Houston attended Harvard University Law School, where he edited the "Harvard Law Review," and graduated in 1922. Between 1929 and 1935, he served as vice dean of Howard University Law School. A member of the NAACP legal staff, he was the architect of numerous decisions striking down segregation in labor unions (1944), higher education (1938 and 1945), and housing (1948). His success in prosecuting those cases developed the strategy that led to the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v Board of Education (1954), which declared that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
Betsy Graves Reyneau, 1943-44. |