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“Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America.”

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Charles Hamilton Houston was an outstanding American lawyer known for his contributions to civil rights law. His work in legal education and practice had a profound impact on the advancement of racial equality. more

“A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive lawyer who [understands] the Constitution of the United States and [knows] how to explore its uses in the solving of problems of local communities and in bettering conditions of the underprivileged citizens.”

“Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.”

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“All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.”

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“By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.”

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“Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.”

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“Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.”

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“How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?”

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“I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial.”

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“I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.”

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“I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.”

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