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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.
Charles R. Hamilton is a former United States Army general who last served as the commanding general of United States Army Materiel Command from 16 March 2023 to 22 March 2024. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He previously served as the deputy chief of staff for logistics of the Army Staff from 6 April 2022 to 16 March 2023.
Although LDF can trace its origins to the legal department of the NAACP created by Charles Hamilton Houston in the 1930s, [2] [3] Thurgood Marshall founded LDF as a separate legal entity in 1940, which became totally independent from the NAACP in 1957. [1] Janai Nelson serves as the eighth President and Director-Counsel, since March 2022. [4]
Former HUSL Dean Charles Hamilton Houston's work for the NAACP earned him the title of "The Man Who Killed Jim Crow." [11] Thurgood Marshall, a 1933 graduate of Howard Law, successfully argued the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case before the U.S. Supreme Court and in 1967 became the first African-American Supreme Court Justice. [12]
Charles James Ogletree Jr. (December 31, 1952 – August 4, 2023) was an American legal scholar who served as the Jesse Climenko Professor at Harvard Law School, where he was the founder of the school's Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice. [1] He was also the author of books on legal topics. [2] [3]
Army Secretary Christine Wormuth reviewed allegations that Gen. Charles Hamilton interfered with the command assessment program and determined that they were “credible.” Wormuth temporarily ...
Canada, 305 U.S. 337 (1938), was a United States Supreme Court decision holding that states which provided a school to white students had to provide in-state education to Black students as well. States could satisfy this requirement by allowing Black and white students to attend the same school or creating a second school for Black students.
Following an on-field altercation at Hamilton football's Sept. 13 game against Sheffield involving the team's coaches and athletic director, 10 coaches were fired. After three years with the ...