what was a 22-year campaign, in concert with lawyers he had trained, in order to overturn the constitutionality of restrictive covenants. This was achieved in the US Supreme Court ruling in Shelley v. Kraemer (1948). The court ruled that (29/33)
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"judicial enforcement of private right constitutes state action for the purpose of the fourteenth amendment." Death …Houston died from a heart attack on April 22, 1950, at the age of 54. Personal life In 1924 Houston married Gladys Moran. They divorced in 1937. He (30/33)
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next married Henrietta Williams. They had Houston's only child in 1940, Charles Hamilton Houston, Jr. In 2023, Loudoun County named the courthouse where Houston defended George Crawford the "Charles Hamilton Houston Courthouse." (31/33)
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In 2024, the National Park Service listed the courthouse as a National Historic Landmark. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles... (32/32)
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