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Charles Hamilton Houston ( between 1930 and Brown V. Board Of Education (1954). Houston's brilliant plan to attack and defeat Jim Crow Segregation by using the inequality of the "separate but equal" doctrine (from the Supreme Court's '' Plessy V. Ferguson '' decision) as it pertained to public education in the United States was the masterstroke that brought about the landmark ''Brown'' decision. CASES ARGUED BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT
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
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