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18. Feb. 2020 · In 1954, Fred Gray earned his law degree, was admitted to the Ohio and Alabama bars, and opened his own law office in Montgomery, Alabama. His work to destroy segregation began the next year when he represented Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks. Both women were charged with disorderly conduct for refusing to move to the segregated section of the bus. Their convictions led to the Montgomery bus ...
20. Feb. 2024 · Lawyer and legislator Fred Gray sat for an interview with Auburn Magazine at the Tuskegee Human & Civil Rights Multicultural Center on Nov. 20, 2023. There might not be a more important person in the history of the Civil Rights movement than Fred Gray. While Martin Luther King was the spokesperson for social justice and change in the 1960s ...
AP Photo. Rosa Parks, left, who was fined $10 and court costs for violating Montgomery’s segregation ordinance for city buses, makes bond for appeal to Circuit Court, Dec. 5, 1955. Signing the bond were E.D. Nixon, center, former state president of the NAACP, and attorney Fred Gray.
25. Feb. 2021 · On Sept. 7, 1954, Gray was licensed to practice in Alabama, becoming one of a handful of Black lawyers in the state. Gray had been supported in his law school efforts by Parks, ASU professor J.E. Pierce, Montgomery civil rights activist E.D. Nixon and others. He’d followed his mother’s instructions to “Keep Christ first in your life, stay ...
The Fred D. Gray Institute for Law, Justice & Society at Lipscomb University recognizes Mr. Gray’s stated lifelong commitment to “eradicate racism” through the law. Launched in spring 2007, the Institute, housed in Lipscomb’s College of Leadership & Public Service, is based on the principle that legal change is one of the surest means ...
14. Aug. 2022 · Fred Gray and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., break into laughter at a joke told by a speaker at a political rally in Tuskegee, Ala., on April 29, 1966.
28. Juli 2022 · Over the past seven decades, longtime Alabama civil rights lawyer Fred Gray represented Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and the victims of the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment, in which the U.S. Public Health Service refused for decades to provide readily available treatment to Black men who had the disease.
