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.”

1930 Edith Greene

1930-1931 Queen of the Quill

1930 Lincoln University Yearbook

Yearbook of Lincoln Institute and its later name Lincoln University (Jefferson City, Mo.) for the academic year 1929-1930. Includes photographs of students, faculty, staff, campus buildings, class notes and histories.