Summary
McNeil profiles Charles Hamilton Houston, who laid the groundwork for the Brown v. Board of Education case. Houston not only trained and advised lawyers working on behalf of Blacks seeking the desegregation of publicly supported schools, but also conceived and initially implemented the legal strategy that culminated in Brown.
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The Architect
"We wouldn't have been any place Charlie hadn't laid the ground work." These are the words of Justice Thurgood Marshall, who is justifiably praised for his leadership in the struggle to have racial segregation in public schools declared unconstitutional a...
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