Outside interests and activities, 1921-2009, bulk: 1990-2005

Contains records documenting Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.’s activities outside of the Harvard Law School, including his career as a lawyer and his service on the Board of various professional and academic organizations. Records related to Ogletree’s legal work include case files for various cases on which he advised and/or served on a team of lawyers, as well as his client files. Of note here are materials documenting Ogletree’s involvement in a 2003 reparations lawsuit filed on behalf of survivors of the 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma Race Massacre, as well as his involvement with the Reparations Coordinating Committee during the early 2000s, and its efforts to file lawsuits against agencies of the U.S. federal and state governments on behalf of the descendants of enslaved Africans. Records of organizational memberships include correspondence, meeting minutes, and reports.