Charles Hamilton Houston was a Harvard Law School graduate and the designated special counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the 1930s and 1940s. As such, he devoted his professional life to finding ways to use the legal system to attack racial inequality, gaining the epithet “the Man Who Killed Jim Crow.” He mounted his attack on two fronts. One was to improve the status of African Americans in the legal system by increasing the number of Black lawyers and in general by promoting educational opportunities for Blacks. His greatest success in that arena was his mentorship of Thurgood Marshall, who would argue Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court in 1954 and eventually serve as a Supreme Court justice. The other was to challenge racial inequality in the courts.