Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel, Frederick Douglass - View this location on map  Howard University is nationally significant for the institution s role in the legal establishment of racially desegregated public education and for its association with two nationally recognized leaders of that fight: Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall. From 1929, Howard Law School became an educational training ground, through the vision of Charles Hamilton Houston, for the development of activist black lawyers dedicated to securing the civil rights of all people of color. Howard University also provided preparation of the legal strategy presented by Thurgood Marshall and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's (NAACP) Legal Defense Fund (LDF) leading to the historic decisions in Brown v. Board of Education (1954, 1955) ending segregation in public education. 2441 & 2365 6th Street, 500 Howard Place, NW, Washington, District of Columbia Historical |