Fred David Gray (born December 14, 1930) is a civil rights attorney, preacher and activist who practices law in Alabama. He litigated several major civil rights cases in Alabama, including some that reached the United States Supreme Court for rulings.
Sep 10, 2015 · He is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney for Maryland. He earned his law degree from New York University School of Law in 1968, and his undergraduate degree from Yale University in 1965. Catherine...
"However, your peace is sincerely needed as I work to deliver justice for Freddie Gray." UPDATE: 9:40 p.m. -- Mosby joined MSNBC's Chris Hayes on Friday night. Asked by Hayes whether she felt prosecutors had rushed the investigation, or if public concern had influenced the process, Mosby said firmly that justice was the first concern.
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Apr 27, 2022 · The six officers involved in Freddie Gray's arrest were suspended two days after his death, when the civilian footage of Gray's arrest showed him screaming in pain. ... On May 1, 2015, Baltimore's State Attorney's office filed charges against the six police officers involved on counts of manslaughter, illegal arrest, reckless endangerment, and ...
Fred David Gray (born December 14, 1930) is a civil rights attorney, preacher and activist who practices law in Alabama. He litigated several major civil rights cases in Alabama, including some, such as Browder v. Gayle, that reached the United States Supreme Court for rulings.
Gray married the former Bernice Hill, his secretary, in 1955, and they had four children. He published his autobiography the same year, Bus Ride to Justice: The Life and Works of Fred Gray. He is also a member of Omega Psi Phi and Sigma Pi Phi.
Other notable civil rights cases brought and argued by Gray included Dixon v. Alabama (1961, which established due process rights for students at public universities), Gomillion v.
Gray's autobiography, Bus Ride to Justice, was published in 1994, and a revised edition in 2012. Browder v.
In 1975, Gray achieved a successful settlement for $10 million and medical treatment for those 72 subjects still living of the original 399. (Penicillin had become a standard treatment by 1947, although research subjects were specifically denied that treatment as well as their true diagnosis.)
In 1980 Fred Gray received the Drum Major Award of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Gray is portrayed by Cuba Gooding, Jr. in the 2014 film Selma, which dramatizes the Selma to Montgomery marches and Gray's argument before Judge Frank Johnson that the march should be allowed to go forward.