Charles Ogletree is the author of books on legal topics.
18 Facts About Charles Ogletree
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Charles Ogletree earned both his BA and MA in political science from Stanford University and his JD from Harvard Law School in 1978.
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Charles Ogletree contributed to periodicals such as New Crisis, Public Utilities Fortnightly, and Harvard Law Review.
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Charles Ogletree appears in the 2013 documentary film, Justice is a Black Woman: The Life and Works of Constance Baker Motley and in the 2014 documentary, Hate Crimes in the Heartland, providing an analysis of the Tulsa Race Riots.
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Charles Ogletree was a member of the board of trustees at Stanford University.
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Charles Ogletree was the chairman of the board of trustees of University of the District of Columbia.
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Charles Ogletree used to be the national president of the Black Law Students Association.
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Charles Ogletree taught both Barack and Michelle Obama at Harvard; he has remained close to Barack Obama throughout his political career.
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Charles Ogletree has written opinion pieces on the state of race in the United States for major publications.
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Charles Ogletree served as the moderator for a panel discussion on civil rights in baseball on March 28,2008, that accompanied the second annual Major League Baseball civil rights exhibition game the following day between the New York Mets and the Chicago White Sox.
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On July 21,2009, Charles Ogletree issued a statement in response to the arrest of his Harvard colleague and client, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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Professor Charles Ogletree later wrote a book about the events titled The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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Charles Ogletree is a founder of the Benjamin Banneker Charter Public School and served on the school's foundation board.
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In 2014, Charles Ogletree's wife started noticing health issues when he was 60 years old and he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease at age 62 in May 2015.
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On July 13,2016, Charles Ogletree announced he had been diagnosed with early-stage Alzheimer's disease.
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In 2019, Charles Ogletree went missing and was found safe by the police after an extensive missing persons search.
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Charles Ogletree marshaled his assistants and parceled out the work and in the process some quotation marks got lost.
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Charles Ogletree received the National Conference on Black Lawyers People's Lawyer of the Year Award, the Man of Vision Award, Museum of Afro-American History, the Albert Sacks-Paul A Freund Award for Teaching Excellence, Harvard Law School in 1993, the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, 1995, the Ruffin-Fenwick Trailblazer Award, and the 21st Century Achievement Award, Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts.