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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.
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- Presidential Medal of Freedom (2022)
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5. Juli 2022 · Fred Gray represented Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and other activists in landmark cases that challenged segregation and disenfranchisement. He will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Biden in July 2022.
- Jonathan Entin
14. Aug. 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.
25. Dez. 2020 · Fred D. Gray, a longtime civil rights lawyer, at his office in Tuskegee, Ala. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called him “the chief counsel for the protest movement.”
- Elaina Plott
7. Juli 2022 · Fred Gray Sr., a Montgomery, Alabama-born attorney who represented Rosa Parks, John Lewis and other civil rights leaders, was bestowed with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Biden. He won landmark cases that challenged segregation, discrimination and medical research on human subjects.
7. Juli 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. Gray has spent nearly seven decades as a civil rights lawyer, representing King , Rosa Parks, and John Lewis.
8. Juli 2022 · President Joe Biden yesterday awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor to Fred Gray, the courageous and tireless Montgomery lawyer who represented Rosa Parks and the dozens of Montgomery residents who were arrested for participating in the Montgomery bus boycott, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
