As the first general counsel of NAACP, Charles Hamilton Houston laid the groundwork and established the legal strategy that ultimately led to the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board to end school segregation. According to the NAACP, Houston earned the moniker “The Man Who Killed Jim Crow.” Houston served in World War I as a First Lieutenant for a segregated U.S. Army. Houston enrolled in Harvard Law School after the war and was admitted to the District of Columbia bar. Houston became the dean of the Howard University Law School and mentored a generation of young Black lawyers, including Thurgood Marshall. Houston came up with the legal strategy to end segregation; they needed to prove to the courts that separate was inherently unequal.