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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 ago 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.
- Samantha Balaban
5 lug 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.
- Jonathan Entin
Fred David Gray è un attivista e avvocato statunitense. Ha discusso diversi importanti casi di diritti civili in Alabama, tra cui alcuni che hanno coinvolto la Corte suprema degli Stati Uniti. Nel 1985 è stato presidente del National Bar Association e nel 2001 è stato eletto primo presidente afroamericano dell'Alabama State Bar.
25 dic 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...
- Elaina Plott
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).
7 lug 2022 · President Joe Biden today bestowed Montgomery, Alabama-born attorney Fred D. Gray Sr. with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his titanic contributions to civil rights in the United States.
