and graduated in the top 5% of his class. Soon after, he embarked on a journey that would prove significant in African American History.
             His fight was defeating segregation. Paramount among his strategy was the education and training of Negro lawyers. Charles Houston observed that most Negro lawyers in the United States were educated at African American schools, and was of the mindset that it was the duty of these schools and the African American people to provide these students with the best teachers available. Implementing this part of his strategy Charles Houston applied for a teaching position at Howard University. With the support of faculty members at Howard University he was hired, and begin work in the fall of 1924 as a professor teaching Agency, Surety and Mortgages, Jurisprudence, and Administrative Law to first- and second-year law students at Howard.
             In Houston's classes, there was no room for laziness and slothfulness. His goal was to give Howard University the same atmosphere as Harvard University. "Houston told fir
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