Munger Tolles Partner Helps Save Archive of U.S. Black History

Munger,Tolles & Olson partner George Fatheree III recently succeeded in preserving for the public an invaluable visual archive of 20th century black America—and he and his colleagues only had 48 hours to pull it off.

Fatheree represented the J. Paul Getty Trust in an eleventh hour bid it made along with a consortium of other foundations to acquire the archive in July. The trove of more than four million images and 10,000 hours of video and audio recordings belonged to Johnson Publishing, the founder of Ebony and Jet magazines, and span over seven decades of the black experience in America. ...