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Fred David Gray (born December 14, 1930) is an American civil rights attorney, preacher, activist, and state legislator from Alabama. He handled many prominent civil rights cases, such as Browder v. Gayle, and was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in 1970, along with Thomas Reed, both from Tuskegee.
14 de ago. de 2022 · On a recent summer day, President Joe Biden awarded the nation's highest civilian honor — the Presidential Medal of Freedom — to civil rights lawyer Fred Gray.
5 de jul. de 2022 · When Rosa Parks was arrested for sitting in the front of a bus in Montgomery, Fred Gray was her lawyer. Now he’s being honored for a lifetime of civil rights advocacy.
25 de dic. de 2020 · Now a push is underway for a new name for the street: Mr. Gray’s. Fred D. Gray, a longtime civil rights lawyer, at his office in Tuskegee, Ala. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called him...
Martin Luther King once described lawyer and activist Fred Gray as “the brilliant young Negro who later became the chief counsel for the protest movement” (King, 41).
14 de ago. de 2022 · As a young attorney, Gray helped defend some of the biggest names of the civil rights movement. If his life had a motto, it would be, as he often says, "To destroy everything segregated I could find."
7 de jul. de 2022 · Fred D. Gray, Case Western Reserve School of Law alumnus from the class of 1954 and internationally renowned civil rights attorney, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Joe Biden in a special White House ceremony.
