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They call him the man who killed Jim Crow, the beacon of the NAACP’s revolutionary crusade against segregation, and the architect of the historic Brown v. Board of Education ruling. And now, 55 years after his death, Harvard Law School (HLS) leaders hope they can finish what Charles Hamilton Houston set out to complete...
...HLS courtroom packed with a veritable who’s who of the legal and academic communities, hundreds united in a day-long celebration of the opening of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, a new center dedicated to carrying forth the legacy of Houston by “identifying and defining the civil rights agenda for the coming generation...
Houston, a 1922 graduate of HLS, is known as a brilliant Supreme Court litigator who laid the groundwork necessary for the NAACP’s victory in the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case. At HLS, he was the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review. He went on to become dean of Howard Law School, where he oversaw the education of nearly a quarter of the nation’s African-American law students...
...would be difficult for me to think of another Law School graduate—living or deceased—that has had such an impact on equality or justice in this country,” said HLS Dean Elena Kagan, who is also the Houston professor...
According to Bush, in the end Roberts turned down a scholarship to Harvard’s Ph.D. program in favor of enrolling at the Harvard Law School (HLS), which he chose over Stanford because, as Bush recalls, his Stanford interviewer wore sandals...