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Charles Hamilton Houston

Lawyer and educator who designed the legal strategy that brought down Plessy v. Ferguson.

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Born 1895 in Washington, DC. Dean of Howard University Law School, mentor to Thurgood Marshall, and lead architect of the NAACP's strategy that culminated in Brown v. Board. Called "The Man Who Killed Jim Crow."

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Washington, DC, USA

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