Attorney Fred Gray (LAW, '54) returns to the Case Western Reserve University School of Law to share details of his career's pursuit for racial justice with area students. Attorney Gray will also sign ...

When Alabama native Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955, she became a household name as a leader of the Civil Rights Movement. Her decision—which Ohioans celebrate ...

There is a quote from the writer Edward Abbey that I have always liked. “…there are plenty of heroes and heroines everywhere you look. They are not famous people. They are generally obscure and modest ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Hoping to uphold African Americans’ ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Legendary attorney ...

Fred Gray was the legal mind behind the Montgomery bus boycott, which began at the Holt Street Baptist Church 50 years ago this month after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus, ...

December 1 marked the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' courageous refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, an act that helped ignite the modern civil rights movement. Behind the scenes, one ...

"Lawyer for Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., the Montgomery bus boycott, the Tuskegee syphilis study, the desegregation of Alabama schools and the Selma march, and founder of the Tuskegee human ...

FLORENCE — Nine days away from his 95th birthday, famed civil rights attorney Fred Gray Sr. sat Friday in front of a couple of hundred Shoals residents on the 70th anniversary of one of the most ...

Civil Rights Attorney Fred Gray talks about starting a Second Civil Rights Movement on Tuesday November 4, 2025.