my father's mentor was a man named charles hamilton houston who excelled in law school, at harvard law school and became dean of harvard law school where he meantoned lawyers in the civil rights movement. charles hamilton houston was clearly a brilliant legal thinker and was a tremendous law student at harvard. to give you a clue as to how much of a pioneer and how brilliant this man was, in 1935 he gave a speech that we recently found at the library of congress where he laid out the entire desegregation cases. that's 1935. this was not a man to be trifled with. i mention thatta background because of the context of the court system that president eisenhower did so much to change. charles hamilton houston went before the supreme court in 1938 and offered a case called gaines versus missouri to get a gentleman admitted into missouri law school. rather justice mcreynolds turned his chair around. if you think about that sort of behavior from a federal judge on the highest court of our land and then you uks that pose that with the quality of the people that eisenhower put on the bench, it's

asked the great civil rights lawyer and later priests, paulie mare must mary, thurgood marshall, charles hamilton houston, they all prevented her from excelling at howard university law school. sexism said jane crowe instead of gym jim crow, it was all around. part of it was pushing the movement. this is why it was called movement. pushing further than the bounds people wanted to go. it was jim crowe, but these women knew there were jane crowe. then other people came along and said, if two men or two women or whatever, the boundaries of democracy should be for everybody. everybody has entitled to the right to live in a democracy. and so the boundaries get pushed. clearly king -- ella baker said this about king and all black preachers. they were used to being in control. they were the spokesman for the community. you know, you ask every black preacher who really runs a church and they will tell you, don't make the deaconess mad. you can make the deacon mad but you better not make the deaconess mad or you won't have a church. there is a give and take going on there. king was part of his generation

one is charles hamilton houston. he was the person who produced the strategy that the honorable thurgood marshall followed to help the naa crmp p litigate the cases that went before the supreme court, more specifically, brown versus board of education and there is a story about thurgood that people are not aware of. he applied to the university of maryland, law school at the university of maryland and was denied access because of his color. and i'm not angry with the university of maryland. as a matter of fact, it was because they rejected him that he went to howard university, where he met the honorable charles hamilton houston. and it was there that their friendship blossomed that thurgood acquired intelligence about the strategy to use the constitution and litigation to bring about a more perfect union. the interesting story, however, is not complete unless we go on to talk about how thurgood, who graduated at the top of his class, went on to practice law. and one of his first cases involved a person who was denie

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