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Charles Houston (actor)
Charles Houston is the name of: * Charles Hamilton Houston (1895–1950), American civil rights lawyer and educator * Charles Snead Houston Charles Snead Houston (August 24, 1913 – September 27, 2009) was an American physician, mountaineer, high-altitude investigator, inventor, author, film-maker, and former Peace Corps administrator. He made two important and celebrated attem ... (1913–2009), American mountaineer, physician, scientist, and Peace Corps worker * Charles Houston (actor) (1931–2006), British actor in ''The Valiant'' (1962 film) {{hndis, name=Houston, Charles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Hamilton Houston
Charles Hamilton Houston (September 3, 1895 – April 22, 1950) was a prominent African-American lawyer, Dean of Howard University Law School, and NAACP first special counsel, or Litigation Director. A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, Houston played a significant role in dismantling Jim Crow laws, especially attacking segregation in schools and racial housing covenants. He earned the title "The Man Who Killed Jim Crow". Houston is also well known for having trained and mentored a generation of black attorneys, including Thurgood Marshall, future founder and director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the first Black Supreme Court Justice. He recruited young lawyers to work on the NAACP's litigation campaigns, building connections between Howard's and Harvard's university law schools. Biography Early years Houston was born in Washington, D.C., to a middle-class family who lived in the Strivers' section. His father William Le Pré Houston, the son of a forme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Snead Houston
Charles Snead Houston (August 24, 1913 – September 27, 2009) was an American physician, mountaineer, high-altitude investigator, inventor, author, film-maker, and former Peace Corps administrator. He made two important and celebrated attempts to climb the mountain K2 in the Karakoram Range. Early life and education Houston was born in New York in 1913 and grew up in Great Neck on Long Island. He was educated at The Hotchkiss School and Harvard University, and he earned a Doctor of Medicine from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Mountaineering Houston began climbing in the Alps with his father where they met Scottish mountaineer T. Graham Brown. He then gained experience on several expeditions to Canada and America making the second ascent of Mount Foraker in 1934, with T. Graham Brown and Chychele Waterston. In 1936, Houston was a member of the British–American Himalayan Expedition led by the British climber H.W. Tilman to the top of Nanda De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Houston (actor)
Charles Houston is the name of: * Charles Hamilton Houston (1895–1950), American civil rights lawyer and educator * Charles Snead Houston Charles Snead Houston (August 24, 1913 – September 27, 2009) was an American physician, mountaineer, high-altitude investigator, inventor, author, film-maker, and former Peace Corps administrator. He made two important and celebrated attem ... (1913–2009), American mountaineer, physician, scientist, and Peace Corps worker * Charles Houston (actor) (1931–2006), British actor in ''The Valiant'' (1962 film) {{hndis, name=Houston, Charles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |