Facts on 26 October
1934 - Charles H. Houston, named director of the NAACP legal campaign.

ON this date in 1934, at a New York City conference, representatives of the NAACP and the American Fund for Public Service planned a coordinated legal campaign against segregation and discrimination. Charles H. Houston, Vice-dean of the Howard University Law School, was named director of the NAACP legal campaign.

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