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In the News (Wed 23 Dec 09)

  
  King Encyclopedia
Fred Gray was one of the few Alabama lawyers who took on civil rights cases during the late 1950s.
In addition, Gray was the defense attorney for Rosa Parks, served as chief counsel during the Montgomery bus boycott, and represented Martin Luther King, Jr.
Gray, who was born in Montgomery in 1930, earned his B.A. from Alabama State College in 1951 and his LL.B. from Case Western Reserve University in 1954.
www.stanford.edu /group/King/about_king/encyclopedia/gray_fred.htm   (293 words)

  
 Beer Travelers - Visiting Gray Brewing Co.
The Gray Brewing Co. might have named its beers Phoenix when they debuted in 1994 were it not for the rich brewing tradition already associated with the Gray name.
Gray's Honey Ale, one of the first commercially brewed honey beers, is available on draft at more than 80 spots in Dane County alone.
Gray's acquired the yeast from a brewer and had it cultured at the University of Wisconsin.
www.beertravelers.com /micros/gray_brewing.html   (1424 words)

  
 Fred Gray address   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
Gray's talk capped a two-day visit to Cornell that included a sermon at Sage Chapel and a public talk at the Beverly J, Martin Elementary School in Ithaca on Feb. 20.
Gray was at the epicenter of the civil rights movement, serving as attorney for Rosa Parks during the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott and later as Martin Luther King Jr.'s attorney.
Gray fought and won compensation for the men involved in the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study and later served in the Alabama state legislature and as president of the National Bar Association.
www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/05/2.24.05/Gray.html   (578 words)

  
 A bit of a Grey area: The hunt for the real Frederick Gray (Showman)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
Fred and Harry, were walking around the ground when Harris ran in front of them and, without a word, pointed a revolver at them from a distance of 8-9 paces.
Fred was wounded in the chest, the bullet having struck the breast bone; an inch further to the left and the wound would have been fatal.
A further recount of events showed that Grays had expected to be able to stand on their usual ground, but when Harry arrived with his living wagon, he found Harris had already occupied the ground.
www.thegalloper.com /backstories/1102fredgray.html   (1493 words)

  
 Fred Gray to give talks at CU (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
Fred Gray, the renowned civil rights attorney who represented Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King and the participants in the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study, will deliver two public talks and participate in a book signing at Cornell Jan. 30 and 31.
Gray avenged his thirst for racial justice in all areas of Alabama society, going on the legal offensive against segregated restaurants, schools, housing authorities, professional associations, parks and recreation, jails, law enforcement officials and wherever vestiges of slavery and segregation existed.
Gray was the driving force in establishing the Tuskegee Human and Civil Rights Multicultural Center as a memorial to the syphilis study participants and to highlight contributions in human and civil rights.
www.news.cornell.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /Chronicle/05/1.27.05/Fred_Gray.html   (671 words)

  
 Thurgood Marshall Award, IRR News Report - ABA Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities
Fred Gray of Tuskegee, Ala., will receive the ABA's 2004 Thurgood Marshall Award in recognition of his work in advancing civil rights and equality under the law for all Americans.
A graduate of the Nashville Christian Institute, Alabama State University, and Case Western Reserve University, Gray currently is a senior partner in the law firm of Gray, Langford, Sapp, McGowan, Gray and Nathanson, with offices in Montgomery and Tuskegee, Ala.
Gray served as President of the National Bar Association in 1985-86, became a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers in 1999, and was selected for a three-year term as a member of the Executive Council of the National Conference of Bar Presidents in 2003.
www.abanet.org /irr/newsreport/spring04/gray.html   (451 words)

  
 Thurgood Marshall Award, 2004 - ABA Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities
Gray is currently a senior partner in the law firm of Gray, Langford, Sapp, McGowan, Gray and Nathanson, with offices in Montgomery and Tuskegee, Alabama.
He was victorious in cases that integrated buses in the city of Montgomery in 1956, returned African-Americans to the city limits of the city of Tuskegee in 1960, and in 1966 won a class action to remedy systematic exclusion of fls from jury service.
Gray previously has been recognized by the American Bar Association, being awarded the "Spirit of Excellence Award" in 1996, celebrating the achievements of lawyers of color and their contributions to the legal profession.
www.abanet.org /irr/tmaward/2004award/fredgray.html   (638 words)

  
 Equal Justice Magazine - Equal Justice Q & A: Alabama Civil Rights Attorney Fred Gray
There, Gray made a private pledge that would become his lifelong mantra: “destroy everything segregated I could find.” It was a vow that would determine the course of the next 55 years of his life.
Gray joined the defense team that exonerated King, allowing him to return to Atlanta to continue his epic struggle for racial fairness in America.
Gray was enlisted as one of the attorneys to defend him.
www.ejm.lsc.gov /EJMIssue5/equaljusticeqanda.htm   (2302 words)

  
 The Flyfisher - Guide Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
Fred Gray has been fishing Colorado waters his entire life.
Fred has seen many changes in the world of fly-fishing in both the gear and the techniques.
Fred is a guide who loves to hook people up and truly gets a kick out of helping his clients catch fish.
www.theflyfisher.com /html/gs_guides_fred.shtml   (586 words)

  
 Case Trustee Gray receives ABA’s Thurgood Marshall Award
“Fred Gray’s contributions to the advancement of civil rights in this country exemplify the spirit of the Thurgood Marshall Award,” said Georgina C. Verdugo, chair of the award committee.
Among his notable legal work is representing Parks after her arrest in 1955 for refusing to relinquish her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus and the class action law suit against the U.S. Public Health Service to seek compensation for injuries to African American men in the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment.
Gray currently is a senior partner with the law firm of Gray, Langford, Sapp, McGowan, Gray and Nathanson, which has offices in Montgomery and Tuskegee.
www.case.edu /news/2004/8-04/aba_gray_award.htm   (520 words)

  
 Cincinnati CityBeat : 02/18/2004 : Gray Eminence
Speaking to the YWCA, Gray dispelled the popularly held belief that Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat to a white man led to the integration of public transportation.
Gray urged the audience to recognize that the struggle for racial equality is far from over.
Gray also discussed the need for diversity to be embraced nationwide and urged the multi-racial audience to make a personal commitment to incorporate diversity within their own lives.
www.citybeat.com /2004-02-18/news2.shtml   (819 words)

  
 NAACP - Civil Rights Attorney Fred Gray Earns Ming Award for More Than 50 Years of Service and Demanding Justice
"Fred Gray is a civil rights battle insider who made the movement and justice his life's work," said NAACP Chief Counsel Dennis C. Hayes.
Gray said he visited New York to personally consult with Thurgood Marshall, then NAACP chief counsel, and other NAACP attorneys about that case and the bus boycott.
Gray, a father of four, served in the Alabama state legislature from 1970 to 1974 as one of the first two African Americans elected since Reconstruction.
www.naacp.org /news/press/20060726gray   (577 words)

  
 Montgomery Bus Boycott: The story of Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement
Attorney Fred Gray has his back to the camera, with Attorney General (and later governor) Albert Patterson shown standing in front of a flag-draped wall.
Gray made history 50 years ago when he successfully argued the U.S. Supreme Court case that led to the desegregation of buses in Montgomery.That case was called Browder v.
Gray was not only the attorney for Rosa Parks and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
www.montgomeryboycott.com /bio_fredgray.htm   (302 words)

  
 Fred Gray   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
Gray was born in Montgomery, Alabama, and is a graduate of the Nashville Christian Institute, Nashville, Tennessee; Alabama State University, Montgomery, Alabama; and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
Gray filed suits that integrated all state institutions of higher learning in the State of Alabama, and one hundred four of the one hundred twenty-one elementary and secondary schools systems in the state.
Gray was the moving force in the establishment of the Tuskegee Human and Civil Rights Multicultural Center (the Center), Tuskegee, Alabama.
www.fredgray.net /background.html   (882 words)

  
 Prof Fred Gray
Fred Gray is Dean of the Sussex Institute, one of the University of Sussex's five new schools.
Fred Gray's research interests include lifelong learning (he is the editor of a recent book, Landscapes of Learning, about lifelong learning in rural Britain) and the cultural and architectural history of seaside resorts.
He was an organizer of an exhibition funded by the Arts Council of England, the English Tourist Board and American Express, Resorts of Delight: England's Seaside Architecture, which toured nationally between 1993 and 1996 at venues ranging from Brighton to Scarborough and from the RIBA in London to Southport and Plymouth.
www.sussex.ac.uk /USIS/test/cce/profile1054.html   (266 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Bus Ride to Justice: Books: Fred D. Gray   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
Fred Gray grew up in Montgomery, Alabama, and had to leave the state to finish his education because fls could not then attend Alabama law schools.
Bus Ride to Justice is the exciting story of a courageous life in the courtrooms of America and in the pulpits of churches where Fred Gray began as a child preacher and continues today, and of a strong human being filled with love and admiration for his fellow man.
Gray defended some of the movements biggest names, you should read some of the things he accomplished.Mr Gray did make every effort to destroy seregation where ever he found it.
www.amazon.com /Bus-Ride-Justice-Fred-Gray/dp/1588381137   (1258 words)

  
 Ropes & Gray LLP: Fred R. Becker
Fred Becker, a partner since 1975, specialized in matters relating to partnerships, corporations, real estate transactions, and all forms of financial instruments until his retirement on December 31, 2003.
Fred is of counsel to the Tax and Benefits department at Ropes and Gray.
Before joining Ropes and Gray, Fred was with the Office of Tax Legislative Counsel of the U.S. Treasury and the Appellate Division of the Department of Justice.
www.ropesgray.com /fredbecker   (78 words)

  
 Fred Gray Sells His Soul « The Alablawg (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
Gray's rousing closing argument opened with a Psalm, then segued into a recitation of some of Gray's best known civil rights cases, including his representation of King in the 1960s and, later, the case against the federal government on behalf of fl victims of the Tuskegee syphilis study.
Judging men on the content of their character rather than the color of their skin means the jury should decide this case based on the facts and the law rather than on emotionally manipulative speeches.
It means the defendants should have simply asserted the truth of their position rather than pandering to the fl community.
alablawg.wordpress.com.cob-web.org:8888 /2006/06/16/fred-gray-sells-his-soul   (606 words)

  
 The Tragedy of Attorney Fred Gray
It featured the life and accomplishments of Fred Gray of Tuskegee, Ala., a 71-year-old Black attorney who defended the fighters of our civil rights movement in the South.
In a strange and unusual turn of events, Attorney Gray decided to defend Bridgestone/Firestone Tire Company in the death case of Earl T. Shinhoster, former executive director of the NAACP.
At the bedside of my daughter who is riddled with pain from her injuries, I could not help but think of my dear brother and friend Earl Shinhoster who lost his life two years ago in the same type of SUV rollover accident.
www.finalcall.com /columns/akbar/fred_gray08-06-2002.htm   (646 words)

  
 Prof Fred Gray : Sussex Institute : University of Sussex
Prof Fred Gray : Sussex Institute : University of Sussex
For a decade until 2001 Fred Gray was the Director of the Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Sussex.
Fred Gray is Dean of the Sussex Institute, one of the University of Sussex's five schools.
www.sussex.ac.uk /si/profile1054.html   (271 words)

  
 fred gray   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
Frederick Robert Gray, age 83 years, of Lakeland, FL, formerly of Caledonia, died of heart failure on September 6, 2003 at Good Shepard Hospice in Lakeland, FL.
Fred was a farmer in Caledonia, and later worked for the Caledonia Highway Department.
Fred is survived by his wife Althea of Lakeland, FL; three daughters, Virginia Schrader of Douglasville, GA, Shirley (Jay) Ward of Caledonia, and Marilyn (Jim) Ryan of Lakeland, FL; son, Gerald Gray of Groveland, FL; four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
www.cal-mum.com /obituary/fred_gray.htm   (158 words)

  
 Gray, Fred: Designing the Seaside   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers tap-danced their way to fame at a Brighton resort in The Gay Divorcee.
Fred Gray delves into the history of seaside architecture here in Designing the Seaside, writing the rich and international story of the seaside resort’s diverse structures from the eighteenth century through today.
Gray is interested not only in the physical structures but also the cultural mores they represent—the “yearly holiday,” and our attitudes about leisure.
www.press.uchicago.edu /cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/187217.ctl   (290 words)

  
 Dialog, UA Faculty and Staff News - March 31, 2003
Distinguished attorney Fred D. Gray of Tuskegee will be the keynote speaker at the Honors' Day program sponsored by UA's Black Faculty and Staff Association (BFSA) on Wednesday, April 16.
One of the first African Americans to serve in the Alabama Legislature since reconstruction, Gray was a member of the Legislature from 1970-1974.
A native of Montgomery, Gray was educated at the Nashville Christian Institute in Nashville, Tenn., Alabama State University and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
dialog.ua.edu /dialog20030331/bb20030331.html   (1321 words)

  
 The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
In this book, the attorney for the men describes the background of the Study, the investigation, and the lawsuit, the events leading up to the Presidential apology, and the ongoing efforts to see that out of this painful and tragic episode of American history comes lasting good.
Fred D. Gray is one of the nation's leading civil rights attorneys.
At age 24, he was the lawyer for Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which began the modern Civil Rights Movement.
www.blairpub.com /history/tuskegeesyphilisstudy.htm   (225 words)

  
 Textbookx.com - Bus Ride to Justice Changing the System by the System by Fred D. Gray at TextbookX.com
When Gray's friend Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for violating the segregated seating ordinance on a Montgomery bus, 26-year-old Martin Luther King, Jr., was chosen to lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and 24-year-old Fred Gray became his--and the movement's--lawyer.
Gray's legal victory in the federal courts ended the boycott 381 days later.
Over the four decades since, Gray has won scores of civil rights cases in education, voting rights, transportation, health, and other areas.
www.textbookx.com /product_detail.php?detail_isbn=1588381137   (373 words)

  
 Fred Gray to speak Saturday at Limestone NAACP dinner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
Fred Gray to speak Saturday at Limestone NAACP dinner
Attorney Fred D. Gray will be the speaker.
Gray represented Rosa Parks during the Montgomery bus boycott, was the first African-American to be elected president of the Alabama Bar Association, and authored "A Bus Ride to Justice."
www.decaturdaily.com /decaturdaily/news/051102/gray.shtml   (128 words)

  
 Fred Gray (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
With a quiet demeanor, strong determination and secret commitment made in college, he vowed, "to become a lawyer, return to Alabama, and destroy everything segregated I could find." Gray began his legal career as a sole practitioner, less than a year out of law school, and at age twenty-four, he represented Mrs.
Rosa Parks who refused to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus, the action that initiated the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
In addition, in 1997 Gray encouraged the President of the United States to make an official apology to the participants of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
www.fredgray.net.cob-web.org:8888 /background.html   (882 words)

  
 Report from Birmingham » Siegelman’s Journey (and Fred Gray Sr. update)
Report from Birmingham » Siegelman’s Journey (and Fred Gray Sr.
There is going to be a hearing that will take place on Monday, just before the trial begins, to discuss the appearance of Fred Gray, Sr.
Gray, the government is apparently pursuing this cautiously—especially with the jury already seated—but they have evidently challenged Gray’s appearance in the case.
www.scrushy-report.com /wordpress/index.php?p=239   (2036 words)

  
 F.A. Gray Paint - Retail Store and Contractor Division for NH MA ME
F.A. Gray, Inc. is a family owned and operated business.
The business has been in the same location since Fred Gray opened the shop in 1902.
Currently the corporation is being run by third and fourth generation owners.
www.fagray.com   (102 words)

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