# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-hamilton-houston
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:41:16.809Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-hamilton-houston"
name: "Charles Hamilton Houston"
slug: "charles-hamilton-houston"
description: "Charles Hamilton Houston Sr. was an American lawyer. He was the dean of Howard University Law School and NAACP first special counsel. A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, Houston played a significant role in dismantling Jim Crow laws, especially combating segregation in schools and racial housing covenants. He earned the title \"The Man Who Killed Jim Crow\"."
tagline: "American lawyer and civil rights attorney"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_houstonlieutenant-lg.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1895-09-03"
deathDate: "1950-04-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.03813559322034
  historical:           6.622865333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hamilton_Houston"
    title: "Charles Hamilton Houston"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hamilton_Houston"
    title: "Charles Hamilton Houston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hamilton_Houston"
    title: "Charles Hamilton Houston"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump