Thurgood Marshall stands as one of America's most influential legal minds, world knew as "Mr. Civil Rights," led to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education.

And as head of the NAACP, he hired a young Thurgood Marshall and Charles Hamilton Houston to lead the organization’s Legal Defense Fund. That initiative developed the legal strategy that ...

Judge Lillian Alexander's journey to the bench of the 507th Family District Court was led by two ideals: education and inspiration.

This included the development of legal strategies for the fight against segregation by Howard University College of Law deans ...

This included the development of legal strategies for the fight against segregation by Howard University College of Law deans Charles ... Houston and William Hastie, along with alumnus Thurgood ...

The road to Garvey’s presidential pardon is a story of tireless activism by human rights leaders, Garvey’s descendants and ...

The NAACP and its leaders, including White, WEB DuBois, Thurgood Marshall, and Charles Hamilton Houston, created a blueprint for America to follow to live up to its ideals. On March 26 ...

His latest book is Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation (Bloomsbury, 2010). In the coming weeks, publishers will release several ...