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History > USA > Civil rights > Activists > Fred Gray
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.”
Photograph: Nicole Craine The New York Times
For a Civil Rights Hero, 90, a New Battle Unfolds on His Childhood Street Before he defended Rosa Parks and became a leading legal force, Fred Gray grew up on an avenue named for Jefferson Davis in Montgomery, Ala. Now a push is underway for a new name for the street: Mr. Gray’s. NYT Dec. 25, 2020 1:40 p.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/25/
Gray, right, helped defend Rosa Parks, left, against charges of disorderly conduct after she was arrested in Montgomery, Ala., for refusing to give up her bus seat to white passengers.
Above, Gray and E.D. Nixon, a former Alabama state president of the NAACP, appear with Parks on Dec. 5, 1955 as she makes bond.
Photograph: Associated Press
Fred Gray was 'chief counsel' of the civil rights era. At 91, he's still in the fight NPR Updated August 21, 2022 7:14 AM ET
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/14/
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.
King once called Gray the "chief counsel" of the civil rights movement.
Photograph: Jack Thornell Associated Press
Fred Gray was 'chief counsel' of the civil rights era. At 91, he's still in the fight NPR Updated August 21, 2022 7:14 AM ET
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/14/
Fred Gray
(Fred Gray) defended Rosa Parks and became a leading legal force
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/25/
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/14/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/25/
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