Montgomery native Fred Gray was MLK Jr.'s 'chief counsel' during the Civil Rights Movement, worked on numerous civil rights cases, and was lead counsel for the victims of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. The ABAesq will honor him with their highest award.
During the Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr. looked to Gray as his “chief counsel.” He was also a key legal strategist for several moments during the struggle for equal rights such as representing Rosa Parks, leading the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and representing marchers during the Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights marches of 1965.
President Joe Biden awards the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to Fred Gray during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 7, 2022. Gray is a prominent civil rights attorney who represented Rosa Parks, the NAACP and Martin Luther King Jr., who called Gray "the chief counsel for the protest movement.
Gray still practices law with the firm Gray, Langford, Sapp, McGowan, Gray, Gray & Nathanson in Tuskegee and Montgomery.: Chief Justices Warren E. Burger and Charles Evans Hughes, and Associate Justices
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