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(American lawyer) Charles Hamilton Houston, a prominent American lawyer, served as the dean of Howard University Law School and the NAACP's first special counsel. A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, Houston played a crucial role in challenging Jim Crow laws, focusing on issues such as segregation in schools and racial housing covenants. He was known as "The Man Who Killed Jim Crow" and trained a generation of black attorneys, notably influencing Thurgood Marshall, who later became the first Black Supreme Court Justice.
