The history of the Charles Hamilton Houston Courthouse in Leesburg. Posted: December 27, 2024 | Last updated: March 19, 2025. A Northern Virginia courthouse named for a Howard University dean has ...

The Loudoun County courthouse, named after Charles Hamilton Houston, has been recognized as a national historical landmark for its role in the civil rights movement.

From all accounts, Charles Hamilton Houston was a hardworking man who didn’t care much for the spotlight. Black History Month comes and goes every year without a single mention of his name in ...

A Loudoun County courthouse recently named after influential civil rights attorney Charles Hamilton Houston has been designated as a national historical landmark. The courthouse in Leesburg was ...

Leesburg is celebrating Juneteenth with a march through downtown from the Charles Hamilton Houston Courthouse to the Orion ...

Charles Hamilton Houston is said to be one of the most influential lawyers and civil rights activists of the 20th century. On Sept. 9, local leaders gathered in Leesburg to ...

In 1935, Thurgood Marshall and Charles Hamilton Houston’s fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha, had been working on plans to file a lawsuit to integrate the University of Maryland. Led by its assistant ...

A historic courthouse, in Leesburg, Virginia, now bears the name of groundbreaking civil rights attorney Charles Hamilton Houston. (Courtesy Loudoun County Government) Loudoun County’s historic ...

A June 19, 2025, march hosted by the Loudoun Freedom Center and Loudoun County's NAACP branch took place from the Charles ...

LEESBURG, Va. — The Charles Hamilton Houston courthouse in Leesburg, Virginia, where a Howard University dean fought to put an end to all-white juries has been named one of the National Park ...

A Cleveland city councilman wants the recently renamed law school at Cleveland State University to consider a new moniker honoring Charles Hamilton Houston, a Black lawyer whose fight against ...

Charles Hamilton Houston Jr., a retired Morgan State University lecturer whose work extended the legacy of his father’s contributions to the civil rights movement, died July 15 from Parkinson ...