Presidential Medal of Freedom Archives - Institute of the Black World 21st Century

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., left, and attorney Fred Gray, whom King called ‘the brilliant young Negro who later became the chief counsel for the protest movement,’ at a political rally in Tuskegee, Alabama, April 29, 1966.

Fred Gray, the ‘chief counsel for the protest movement,’ to get Medal of Freedom for his civil rights work

By IBW21News & Current Affairs

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…

July 8, 2022

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Fred Gray, the ‘chief counsel for the protest movement,’ to get Medal of Freedom for his civil rights work

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