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and Houston ’ s plan to create and empower an entire generation of civil rights attorneys was substantially advanced .
In particular , two of Houston ’ s best students at Howard Law School were inspired toward lives of profound accomplishment in civil rights jurisprudence . A young Thurgood Marshall , the future Supreme Court justice who participated in the case as a researcher , later described this experience as a watershed moment in his life . The very reason he changed direction and dedicated his career to civil rights , he said , was because the Crawford case proved to him that it was possible for a black man to find justice in a southern court .
Famed African American attorney Oliver Hill , second only to Marshall in class standing at Howard , told interviewers later in life that the Crawford case was a particular inspiration for his own significant career pursuing equal justice in Virginia and elsewhere in the United States . And , in a footnote , Gus Valentine became the very first African American juror to be formally added to the Loudoun County rolls a year later with the strong support of Charles Houston .
Unfortunately , Mr . Valentine was never called to actually serve .
After the Crawford case , the small African American community in Loudoun County asked Mr . Houston to help them again by joining the local organized effort in Loudoun for a long sought high school for black students . This was an opportunity for Houston to advance his strategy of challenging “ separate but equal ” school systems . And with his help , they succeeded — Frederick Douglass High School was constructed , equipped , fully accredited and opened by 1941 on a plot of land identified and bought with the hard earned resources of the local African American community
Historians see the Crawford case in Loudoun County as a critical and significant foundation in the struggle for civil rights in the United States . It led to and supported other cases seeking equal justice in court proceedings and jury selection and inspired a whole generation of civil rights attorneys . Houston , the NAACP and the attorneys mentored and inspired by Houston went on to many other cases all across the South and elsewhere fighting for equal justice and against segregated education . It took decades before the major breakthrough in Brown v . Board of Education was actually decided in the U . S . Supreme Court , but the door to this success was opened here in the Loudoun County Courthouse .
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