Richard Baxter Foster Letter to his wife September 14 1863

Letter from Richard Baxter Foster to his wife Lucy from St. Louis on September 14, 1863.

Daniel Foster Letter to Richard Baxter Foster May 11, 1863

Daniel Foster's letter to his brother Richard Baxter Foster from Camp of the 33rd Miss. Vol. near Aquin Creek, Virginia on May 11, 1863.

Richard Baxter Foster Letter to his wife March 7 1863

Letter from Richard Baxter Foster to his wife Lucy on March 7, 1863

1.3 Charles Hamilton Houston, NAACP Chief Attorney, 1930-54

The NAACP’s legal team, which eventually included Thurgood Marshall, had a strategy in mind for confronting the Plessy v Ferguson “separate but equal” Supreme Court decision of 1896. Walter White, the NAACP President assisted Houston in developing the plan. By concentrating on the “equal” aspect of Plessy, the NAACP would attempt to make “separate but equal” a financial impossibility for states toeing the line of “Jim Crow” laws. In the words of Charles Hamilton Houston, “we are going to bleed them white.”

3.3 Charlie Houston Letter to Walter on May 24, 1938

Although Lloyd Gaines’ battle against the University of Missouri, and ultimately the Jim Crow laws emanating from Plessy v Ferguson, was, on the surface, not faring too well, Charles Hamilton Houston, however, was pleased.