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Charles Houston

Cases argued before the Supreme Court

• Hollins v. Oklahoma
• Hale v. Kentucky
• Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada
• Steele v. Louisville & Nashville RR.
• Tunstall v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen
• Hurd v. Hodge
• Brown v. Board of Education

Legacy

Houston was posthumously awarded the NAACP's Spingarn Medal in 1950 and, in 1958, the main building of the Howard University School of Law was dedicated as Charles Hamilton Houston Hall. His importance became more broadly known through the success of Thurgood Marshall and after the 1983 publication of Genna Rae McNeil's Groundwork: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights.

Houston is the namesake of the Charles Houston Bar Association and the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School, which opened in the fall of 2005. In addition, there is a professorship at Harvard Law named after him; currently, the Dean of Harvard Law School, Elena Kagan, is also the Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of Law.

Houston was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans.

External links

• Charles Hamilton Houston information at Cornell University
• Charles H. Houston and the ''Gaines'' case
• Biography of Houston at the "Brown at 50" website
• Charles Houston Bar Association
• The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School
• The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute, Madison, WI
• Road to Brown transcript, California Newsreel, Presentation of University of Virginia

Further reading

• McNeil, Genna Rae, Groundwork: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights, ISBN 0-8122-1179-0.
• Kluger, Richard, Simple Justice, ISBN 0-394-72255-8.