# Charles Hamilton Houston & World War I.

Before Charles Hamilton Houston became the chief attorney for the NAACP and a mentor to Thurgood Marshall, he was a young officer serving in a segregated military during the First World War. Curator Ryan Reft discusses Houston's wartime experiences and their influence on his later work.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2017
- By: Library Of Congress
- Genres: War, History
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021690710/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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