Tracy Berry's mother gave these messages to guests celebrating Tracy's graduation from law school
Tracy Berry with a 1977 St. Louis Post-Dispatch article about Lloyd Gaines. This article was the first time Tracy learned of her great uncle
Lloyd Gaines, second from left, with his Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity brothers at Lincoln University, then Missouri's only university open to African Americans. From Berry family personal archive
Charles Hamilton Houston, back row, second from right, with his fellow Harvard Law Review board of editors, 1921-1922. Houston was the first African American student to serve on the Harvard Law Review
Tracy Berry conducting research at the St. Louis Public Library
A banner headline announces Gaines's victory
A young Tracy Berry with her family
Michael Middleton, the third African American to graduate from the University of Missouri School of Law (1971), and the university's first Black law professor. Middleton was appointed interim president of the university amidst campus protests following the 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO.
Tracy Berry on an Alpha Phi Alpha tour of Chicago, in front of the location of the city's original Alpha house from which Lloyd Gaines disappeared in 1939
Tracy Berry in front of the entrance to the University of Missouri, 90 years after her great-uncle was refused entry to its law school because he was Black
