Tuskegee 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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An enslaved African American family or families pose on the plantation of Dr. William F. Gaines in Hanover County, Virginia, 1862.

The Thorny History of Reparations in the United States

By IBW21Reparations

In the 20th century, the country issued reparations for Japanese American internment, Native land seizures, massacres and police brutality. Will slavery be next? By Erin Blakemore, History — The papers…

July 9, 2021

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Commentary, Articles and Essays by Dr. Julianne Malveaux

We were guinea pigs for the US: It isn’t just Tuskegee

By Dr. Julianne MalveauxDr. Julianne Malveaux

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux— People who don’t know Black history have probably heard more about the Tuskegee syphilis “experiment” in the last month than they have in their whole lives. …

January 6, 2021

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

The Thorny History of Reparations in the United States

We were guinea pigs for the US: It isn’t just Tuskegee

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