Bus Ride to Justice (Revised Edition), Changing the System by the System: The Life and Works of Fred D. Gray

Gray, Fred D.

ISBN 10: 1588382869 / ISBN 13: 9781588382863

Published by Montgomery, Alabama, Revised Edition, NewSouth Books, 2012

About this Item

Very Good Hardcover; in Very Good Semi-Glossy Dust Jacket with bright, distinct lettering, price intact on front flap; Flat-Signed by author Fred D. Gray on title page; attractively bound in black covers with bright, distinct silver-stamped spine lettering; xx (20) + 428 pages including 24 pages (of photos with captions, a map, and others), table of cases, appendices, and an index; about the author from the dust jacket: Lawyer for Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., The Montgomery Bus Boycott , The Tuskegee Syphilis Study, The Desegregation of Alabama Schools, and The 1965 Selma March; a securely bound book.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bus Ride to Justice (Revised Edition), Changing the System by the System: The Life and Works of Fred D. Gray
• Publisher: Montgomery, Alabama, Revised Edition, NewSouth Books
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1588382869
• ISBN 13: 9781588382863
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

First published in 1995, Bus Ride to Justice, the best-selling autobiography by acclaimed civil rights attorney Fred D. Gray, appears now in a newly revised edition that updates Gray’s remarkable career of “destroying everything segregated that I could find.”

Of particular interest will be the details Gray reveals for the first time about Rosa Parks’s 1955 arrest. Gray was the young lawyer for Parks and also Martin Luther King Jr. and the Montgomery Improvement Association, which organized the 382-day Montgomery Bus Boycott after Parks’s arrest. As the last survivor of that inner circle, Gray speaks about the strategic reasons Parks was presented as a demure, random victim of Jim Crow policies when in reality she was a committed, strong-willed activist who was willing to be arrested so there could be a test case to challenge segregation laws.

Gray’s remarkable career also includes landmark civil rights cases in voting rights, education, housing, employment, law enforcement, jury selection, and more. He is widely considered one of the most successful civil rights attorneys of the twentieth century and his cases are studied in law schools around the world. In addition he was an ordained Church of Christ minister and was one of the first blacks elected to the Alabama legislature in the modern era. Initially denied entrance to Alabama’s segregated law school, he eventually became the first black president of the Alabama bar association.

This volume also includes new photographs not found in the previous edition.

About the Author

FRED D. GRAY is one of the nation’s leading civil rights attorneys. At age 24, he was the lawyer for Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which began the modern Civil Rights Movement. His other cases and clients include the Freedom Riders, the Selma-to-Montgomery March, numerous school desegregation and voting rights lawsuits, and many others. He lives in Tuskegee, Alabama.