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//By: Emily// Charles Hamilton Houston had completed high school at age 15 and graduated to become one of the six valedictorians from the Amherst college in Massachusetts in1915. So then later on he moved into the association of American law school so when he accomplished that, he became one of the famous lawyer ever. Also that in 1924 he also began to teach part time at Howard University, and that he do ground work and he stop at 70-71 (1983) and that he was one of the most important civil rights attorney in Americans history.
 * Charles Hamilton Houston**

Houston entered Harvard Law School in the fall of 1919 .Houston was the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review. Here, he is shown with the other members of the Law Review editorial board of 1923, in the back row next to the arch at the right drid, asking for his recommendation to the Howard University Law School, where he was being considered for a faculty appointment. He was later to become Dean. Some of Houston's activities during this period are chronicled in a video from the University of Virginia, //The Road to Brown//.Houston as an Army officer during World War I. Though Houston invited Roscoe Pound to Howard on numerous occasions, there is no evidence that Pound ever actually visited. The last paragraph of the letter at the left reads, "Not to be selfish, but I do hope that you can find time to show you a little bit about our side of America."

Charles Hamilton Houston conceived of and led the legal strategy leading to the end of legalized racial segregation in the United States. Houston is recognized as the architect behind the ultimate success of the long struggle to end legalized discrimination and, in particular, //Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights//.