The distinguished lawyer Charles Hamilton Houston was born in 1895, eight months before the Supreme Court's "separate but equal" ruling in Plessy vs. Ferguson. He spent his career fighting to overturn that infamous decision. At Howard University Law School, Houston trained a cod-ray of topnotch black lawyers. Among them was Mr. Justice, Thurgood Marshall. Then as director of the NAACP's legal campaign, Houston masterminded the strategy that eventually led to the historic decision of Brown vs. Board of Education, which reversed the Supreme Court's position on "separate but equal". He set an important legal precedent in 1935 when he successfully challenged the University of Maryland Law School for refusing to admit a black student. I'm Barack Obama, remembering Charles Hamilton Houston and celebrating a great moment in our history.