Dr. Fred Gray speaks at Faulkner University
Civil rights attorney Dr. Fred Gray, who represented Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rosa Parks, spoke at Faulkner University in Montgomery.
Gray spoke to alumni and friends who were on campus for a week of revival that will end with Faulkner’s homecoming football game on Saturday.
This year’s Faulkner Bible Lectureship theme is “Reconnect,” and it will shape a spiritual as well as a physical reconnection.
They were excited to hear from nationally-honored civil rights attorney and Church of Christ preacher Dr. Fred Gray. He was a key figure in the modern civil rights movement. He litigated several major cases in Alabama that set precedent including Browder vs. Gayle, which integrated buses in Montgomery in 1956, and took NAACP vs. State of Alabama to the U.S. Supreme Court, winning the right of the NAACP to do business in the state.
He was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in 1970 as one of the first Black members of the legislature. Currently a resident of Tuskegee, Dr. Gray is the senior partner in the law firm of Gray, Langford, Sapp, McGowan, Gray & Nathanson.
Last year, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House.
He also served as the President of the National Bar Association in 1985, and in 2001 was elected as the first African-American President of the Alabama State Bar. He served on the Board of Trustees at Faulkner University and continues to serve Faulkner as a Trustee Emeriti. He is regularly honored by Faulkner Law through the Fred Gray Civil Rights Symposium.
