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Charles Hamilton Houston: Whether elected or...

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Whether elected or appointed, public officials serve those who put and keep them in office. We cannot depend upon them to fight our battles.

Source: c. 1945; in My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget, by Dorothy Winbush Riley, 1995.
-- Charles Hamilton Houston, (Sep 3 1895-1950), US lawyer, educator; He was dean of the law school at Howard Univ; headed the NAACP legal team that began the assault on the nation's system of segregated schools, 1930s.


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