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2. Charles Hamilton Houston - Wikipedia

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   Charles Hamilton Houston (September 3, 1895 – April 22, 1950) [1] was an American lawyer. He was the dean of Howard University Law School and NAACP first special counsel. A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, Houston played a significant role in dismantling Jim Crow laws, especially attacking segregation in schools and racial housing covenants.

3. University of Houston Law Center - Wikipedia

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   Website. www .law .uh .edu. The University of Houston Law Center is the law school of the University of Houston in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1947, the Law Center is one of 12 colleges of the University of Houston, a state university. It is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools.

4. John J. Herrera - Wikipedia

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   Children. 7. Education. South Texas College of Law Houston ( LLB) Occupation. Attorney, activist. John James Herrera (April 12, 1910 – October 12, 1986) was an American attorney, activist, and leader in the Chicano Movement .

5. History of African Americans in Houston - Wikipedia

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   Booker T. Washington High School (current 2018 campus shown) was the first high school for blacks in Houston. After the U.S. Civil War Freedmen's schools served black children. Later a private school in the Fourth Ward, the Gregory Institute, opened and began serving the children. [77]

6. Vernon Jordan - Wikipedia

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   Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr. (August 15, 1935 – March 1, 2021) was an American business executive and civil rights attorney who worked for various civil rights movement organizations before becoming a close advisor to President Bill Clinton . Jordan grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and graduated in 1957 from DePauw University.

7. Bryan Stevenson - Wikipedia

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   Bryan Stevenson. Bryan Stevenson (born November 14, 1959) is an American lawyer, social justice activist, and law professor at New York University School of Law, and the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative. Based in Montgomery, Alabama, he has challenged bias against the poor and minorities in the criminal justice ...