Charles Hamilton Houston, Esq. The Man Who Killed Jim Crow He devised a strategy. He attacked the "separate but equal" theory his real thought behind it was that "All right, if you want it separate but equal, I will make it so expensive for it to be separate that you will have to abandon your separateness." demanding equalization of salaries for teachers, equal facilities in the schools and all of that. In 1934, Houston to filmed the lives of poor blacks students in the South