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Tue Jul 5

Fred Gray, the 'chief counsel for the protest movement,' to get Medal of Freedom for his civil rights work

Written by Jonathan Entin, Professor Emeritus of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., left, and attorney Fred Gray, whom King called 'the brilliant young Negro who later became the chief counsel for the protest movement,' at a political rally in Tuskegee, Alabama, April 29, 1966.AP Photo/Jack Thornell

Over the past seven decades, longtime Alabama civil rights lawyer Fred Gray represented...

Fred Gray, the 'chief counsel for the protest movement,' to get Medal of Freedom for his civil rights work

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