As a lawyer I dedicated my life to defeating Jim Crow. I believed that the way to do it was to fight for the correct interpretation of the words of the Constitution. Who am I?



Answer :


Charles Hamilton Houston

The person that is described in the passage is Charles Hamilton Houston.

Houston was an African-American lawyer who dedicated his career to fight and dismantle the Jim Crow Laws, local laws of southern states that segregated black people in those territories. He was also a mentor to many African-American jurists, including Thurgood Marshall.