Charles Ogletree, the civil rights attorney and Harvard Law School professor who mentored the Obamas and represented clients including Anita Hill, Tupac Shakur and the victims of the 1921 Tulsa race riots, has died at age 70
He was 70. The cause of death was Alzheimer’s disease, the school said. Ogletree, born in 1952, graduated from Harvard Law School in 1978 and worked as an attorney for the District of Columbia Public Defender Service before returning to Harvard Law as a lecturer in 1984, Harvard said. Known as “Tree,” he founded the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice and the Criminal Justice Institute at the law school, Dean John F. Manning said in a statement.
“Very few of us have a clear sense of the actual tragic circumstances that led to the death and destruction of millions of Africans simply being transported from Africa to the United States,” Ogletree said in a 2001 interview with the Harvard Law Bulletin. “It is in some sense every bit as tragic as the Holocaust, and yet it has received considerably less attention.” He added: “here hasn’t been a decade when the chain of discrimination and bigotry and prejudice has been unbroken.
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