Fred D. Gray

Johnson, Gwendolyn G.
Adeyemon, Earnestine

2006-10-06
2014-12-01

Fred D. Gray earned his law degree from Case Western Reserve University in 1954. In 1955, he represented Mrs. Rosa Parks, whose arrest and conviction for defying the statute segregating white and black passengers on public busses led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Mr. Gray successfully defended Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and 90 other ministers when Alabama officials tried to stop the boycott. In Gomillion vs. Lightfoot, Mr. Gray prompted a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that eradicated gerrymandering in Alabama. Attorney Gray served in the State House of Representatives as one of the first two African Americans members since Reconstruction. Mr. Gray was one of the two recipients of the Fletcher Reed Andrews Award as graduate of the year from the Case Western Reserve University Law School. In 1986, he was elected President of the National Bar Association.

African Americans -- Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University -- Alumni
Cleveland (Ohio) -- History
African American History
African American Scholars

Cleveland, Ohio

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