Veteran civil rights attorney Fred Gray talks with Tim Mickel before speaking to the Chattanooga Bar Association Friday at the Mariott.Alabama attorney Fred Gray’s resume is full of civil rights history.
He represented Rosa Parks. He defended Martin Luther King Jr. And he helped victims of the Tuskegee Syphillis Study.
“Dr. Gray’s client list is legendary,” said Timothy Mickel, president of the Chattanooga Bar Association.
Gray addressed the group at its annual Law Day celebration, an event for Americans to learn “more about our law, our legal system and our rights.”
Mickel said Gray will “long be remembered as the foremost civil rights attorney in Alabama and American history.”