Charles H. Houston

An Interdisciplinary Study of Civil Rights Leadership

Contributions by Derek W. Black, John Brittain, Malachi Crawford, Lewis R. Gordon professor of philosophy and Africana studies, University of Connecticut, Katherine Bankole Medina, Christel N. Temple University of Pittsburgh, Julius E. Thompson, L. Darnell Weeden, Cary D. Wintz Edited by James L. Conyers

Publication date:

17 August 2012

Length of book:

302 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

Dimensions:

235x159mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780739143582

This study seeks to examine the life and work of Charles Hamilton Houston and the scope of this project will focus on the implementation and organization of the proposed plan in three ways: philosophical ideas, constructive engagement, and lasting contributions of this legal scholar activist. When compiling scholarly articles for this volume, the challenge was examining not just legal precedents of Houston, but his contributions to the study of civic engagement, with emphasis on privilege, racism, disparity, and educational philosophy.

Chapter 1: Charles Hamilton Houston: An Efficacious Reflexive Analysis
James L. Conyers, Jr.
Part I. Philosophical Foundations
Chapter 2: In Defense of Voluntary Desegregation: All Things Are Not Equal
Derek W. Black
Chapter 3: “A Lawyer is either a social engineer or a parasite to society”
John Brittain
Chapter 4: What the Right Learned from Charles Houston That the Left Did Not
Lewis R. Gordon
Part II. Constructive Engagement
Chapter 5: The Historical Legacy of the Nadir and Houstonian Jurisprudence in the
Origins of the Modern Civil Rights Movement
Katherine Bankole Medina
Chapter 6: Charles Hamilton Houston and Post-New Negro Movement Authority:
The Socio-Literary History of a Legal Warrior
Christel N. Temple
Part III. Enduring Contributions
Chapter 7: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle Against Lynching in the
United States, 1930-1939
Julius E. Thompson
Chapter 8: African American Voices Should Speak Loudly and Proudly to Protect Undocumented Immigrants from Fundamentally Unfair Discrimination
L. Darnell Weeden
Chapter 9: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Development of the NAACP's Legal Assault on Jim Crow: The Texas White Primary as a Case Study
Cary D. Wintz
Chapter 10: Neo-Houstonian Studies: The Nation of Islam, Edward W. Jacko, Jr. and the Struggle for Afro-Muslim Civil Liberties
Malachi Crawford

Charles Hamilton Houston is perhaps the greatest intellectual of the twentieth century as a result of his unprecedented work on race and justice issues and Charles H. Houston: An Interdisciplinary Study of Civil Rights Leadership captures his innumerable strategies and highlights his history. Anyone seeking to learn about who killed Jim Crow must read this book!