8.6 Charles Houston, Scottsboro Case, Revisited, 1939

Teaching Labor's Story

8.6 Charles Houston, Scottsboro Case, Revisited, 1939

Photo: Charles Hamilton Houston. Courtesy of Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School.

Charles Houston delivered this speech to an International Labor Defense conference on July 8th, 1939. His “Special Paper on…Educational Equality” speech draws a connection between labor, civil rights, and education. Houston specifically links the Scottsboro Case to labor control.

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