By Victor Trammell Photo credits: The Everett Collection Charles Hamilton Houston, the first general counsel of the NAACP, demonstrated the emptiness of the 'separate but equal' theory and laid the ground for the Supreme Court decision to abolish race-based school segregation. Houston gained his 'the Man Who Ended Jim Crow' nickname because to the legal brilliance utilized to […]

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