He was the only child of legendary civil rights lawyer Charles H. Houston Sr., whose legal work during the 1930s helped set the stage for the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic 1954 Brown vs.

Charles Hamilton Houston, Esquire, was a Washingtonian lawyer who trained many African American lawyers at Howard University to dismantle the Jim Crow laws that existed in the United States prior ...

Houston also served as a vice dean for the Howard University law school and was the first general counsel for the NAACP. “Your job as an elementary school student at Charles H. Houston is to ...