TY - GEN AU - Houston,William LePre AU - Houston,Charles Hamilton TI - William LePre Houston family papers, KW - Du Bois, W. E. B. KW - Hastie, William, KW - Hays, Will H. KW - Houston, G. David KW - Houston, Margaret Gladys Moran KW - Houston, Mary Ethel Hamilton KW - Johnson, Mordecai W. KW - Morris, Edward H. KW - Washington, Booker T., KW - Washington, George, KW - Wayne, Anthony, KW - Woodson, Carter Godwin, KW - Houston family. KW - United States KW - Army KW - History KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - Amherst College KW - Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America KW - Harvard Law School KW - Railway Men's International Benevolent Industrial Association KW - Universidad Central (Spain) KW - Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) KW - African Americans KW - Labor unions, Black KW - Practice of law KW - Washington (D.C.) KW - France KW - Lawyers KW - itoamc N1 - Open to research N2 - Correspondence, diaries, financial records, academic papers, printed material, and other papers chiefly of William LePre Houston, a Washington, D.C., lawyer, and his son and law partner, Charles Hamilton Houston. Documents William's work as attorney for the Railway Men's International Benevolent Industrial Association and other African American labor organizations, his activism as a Republican, and his position as grandmaster of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America. Other subjects include Charles's service in the U.S. Army in France during World War I and his education at Amherst College, Amherst, Mass., Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., and the Universidad Central (Spain), Madrid, Spain, and Houston family life. An autograph collection contains signatures of George Washington and Anthony Wayne. Family correspondents include William LePre Houston's wife, Mary Ethel Hamilton Houston, and Charles Hamilton Houston's first wife, Margaret Gladys Moran Houston. Other correspondents include W.E.B. Du Bois, William Hastie, Will H. Hays, G. David Houston, Mordecai W. Johnson, Edward H. Morris, Booker T. Washington, and Carter Godwin Woodson UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010216 UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010216.3 ER -