"A classic.
Many of the lawyers who won the greatest advances.
A brilliant lawyer and educator, he laid much of the legal foundation for the landmark Civil Rights decisions of the 1950s and 1960s.
Leon Higginbotham, Jr., from the Foreword Charles Hamilton Houston (1895-1950) left an indelible mark on American law and society.
It] will make an extraordinary contribution to the improvement of race relations and the understanding of race and the American legal process."--Judge A. . . . "A classic