Fred Gray (attorney)

Fred Gray is a civil rights attorney and activist who practices law in Alabama [http://www.fredgray.net/] . He served as the President of the National Bar Association in 1985 and the first African-American President of the Alabama State Bar.

Gray was a lawyer in Alabama during the civil rights movement [cite article | title=King Encyclopedia | url=http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/about_king/encyclopedia/gray_fred.htm] . He came to prominence working with Martin Luther King, Jr., E.D. Nixon, Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Improvement Association during the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 ("Browder v. Gale"). Other notable cases include: "Gomillion v. Lightfoot" (redistricting of Tuskegee, ultimately affording political power to blacks in that city), "Williams v. Wallace" (protected Selma to Montgomery marchers), and "Lee v. Macon" (desegregation of all state public schools). He also represented plaintiffs in the class-action lawsuit in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study ("Pollard v. U.S.").

Gray is a member of Omega Psi Phi and Sigma Pi Phi. Gray's religious affiliation is the Church of Christ.

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