James L. Conyers, Jr. is the Director of the African American Studies Program and Director of the Center of African American Culture and University Professor of African American Studies at the University of Houston.

Charles Hamilton Houston is perhaps the greatest intellectual of the twentieth century as a result of his unprecedented work on race and justice issues and Charles H. Houston: An Interdisciplinary Study of Civil Rights Leadership captures his innumerable strategies and highlights his history. Anyone seeking to learn about who killed Jim Crow must read this book!

• Chapter 1: Charles Hamilton Houston: An Efficacious Reflexive Analysis James L. Conyers, Jr. Part I. Philosophical FoundationsChapter 2: In Defense of Voluntary Desegregation: All Things Are Not EqualDerek W. BlackChapter 3: “A Lawyer is either a social engineer or a parasite to society”John BrittainChapter 4: What the Right Learned from Charles Houston That the Left Did NotLewis R. GordonPart II. Constructive EngagementChapter 5: The Historical Legacy of the Nadir and Houstonian Jurisprudence in the Origins of the Modern Civil Rights MovementKatherine Bankole MedinaChapter 6: Charles Hamilton Houston and Post-New Negro Movement Authority:The Socio-Literary History of a Legal WarriorChristel N. TemplePart III. Enduring ContributionsChapter 7: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle Against Lynching in theUnited States, 1930-1939Julius E. ThompsonChapter 8: African American Voices Should Speak Loudly and Proudly to Protect Undocumented Immigrants from Fundamentally Unfair DiscriminationL. Darnell WeedenChapter 9: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Development of the NAACP's Legal Assault on Jim Crow: The Texas White Primary as a Case StudyCary D. Wintz Chapter 10: Neo-Houstonian Studies: The Nation of Islam, Edward W. Jacko, Jr. and the Struggle for Afro-Muslim Civil LibertiesMalachi Crawford