The late Oliver White Hill (Circa 1985)
The Oliver White Hill Foundation, Inc., was organized in the year 2000 to carry on the legacy of Civil Rights Icon Oliver W. Hill of Richmond, Virginia and to promote a new generation of lawyers dedicated to human rights and public service.
Professor Charles J. Ogletree of Harvard Law School has written that "[A]ny serious examination of the Civil Rights Movement’s heyday must go through Richmond, Virginia, and has to embrace the incredible efforts and accomplishments of Oliver Hill. As one of America’s most distinguished attorneys, and the Renaissance man of the Civil Rights Movement, Oliver Hill carved paths of justice from the schools to the streets of Richmond all the way to the United States Supreme Court . . . His words and deeds, like those of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall and Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, provide inspiration and direction for the 21st century civil rights leaders to continue the battle to make America the country it is destined to be.”