Charles Ogletree: 2 books

The Presumption of Guilt

The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America

by Charles Ogletree
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012

Shortly after noon on Tuesday, July 16, 2009, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., MacArthur Fellow and Harvard professor, was mistakenly arrested by Cambridge police sergeant James Crowley for attempting to break into his own home. The ensuing media firestorm ignited debate across the country. The Crowley-Gates...

All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education

by Charles J. Ogletree Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2005

"An effective blend of memoir, history and legal analysis."—Christopher Benson, Washington Post Book World In what John Hope Franklin calls "an essential work" on race and affirmative action, Charles Ogletree, Jr., tells his personal story of growing up a "Brown baby"...