- Collection:
- Encyclopedia of Alabama
- Title:
- Fred Gray
- Creator:
- Key, Barclay
- Date of Original:
- 2008-04-15
- Subject:
- African American lawyers--Alabama--Montgomery
Lawyers--Alabama--Montgomery
African American civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery
Civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery
Civil rights movements--Alabama--Montgomery
Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Montgomery
African Americans--Alabama--Montgomery
African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama--Montgomery
Civil rights--Alabama--Montgomery
African Americans--Segregation--Alabama--Montgomery
Segregation--Alabama--Montgomery
Race discrimination--Alabama--Montgomery
Montgomery (Ala.)--Race relations--History--20th century
Race relations
Montgomery Improvement Association
Segregation in education--Alabama--Montgomery
School integration--Alabama--Montgomery
Legislators--Alabama
African Americans--Politics and government
African American clergy--Alabama--Montgomery
Clergy--Alabama--Montgomery
Churches of Christ--Alabama - People:
- Gray, Fred D., 1930-
- Location:
- United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, 32.22026, -86.20761
United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997 - Medium:
- articles
interactive resource - Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Fred Gray, a prominent Alabama civil rights attorney whose clients have included Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the victims of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. When he opened his Montgomery law office in 1954, Gray was one of the few African American attorneys in the state. His career blossomed in the context of the civil rights movement, as he played a pivotal role in dismantling legal segregation in the state.
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- http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1510
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