Bus Ride to Justice: The Life and Works of Fred Gray

Gray, Fred

ISBN 10: 1588381137 / ISBN 13: 9781588381132

Published by Newsouth Inc, 2002

About this Item

First Edition, First Printing, Inscribed by Gray on half-title page, "Lauren, Best Wishes, Fred D.Gray, 03/19/07. No Writing in text, slight wear to edges and cover. Ships with tracking the same or next business day from New Haven, CT. We fully guarantee to ship the exact same item as listed and work hard to maintain our excellent customer service.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bus Ride to Justice: The Life and Works of Fred Gray
• Publisher: Newsouth Inc
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1588381137
• ISBN 13: 9781588381132
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 17 ounces
• Signed: Signed by Author

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Synopsis

Fred Gray grew up in Montgomery, Alabama, and had to leave the state to finish his education because blacks could not then attend Alabama law schools. He returned to his hometown in 1954 and became one of two black lawyers in the city. He was, he writes, "determined to destroy everything segregated that I could find." He did not have to wait long. When his friend Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for violating the segregated seating ordinance on a Montgomery bus, 26-year-old Martin Luther King, Jr., was chosen to lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and 24-year-old Fred Gray became his and the movement s lawyer. Gray s legal victory in the federal courts ended the boycott 381 days later. Over the four decades since, Gray has won scores of civil rights cases in education, voting rights, transportation, health, and other areas. He represented the Freedom Riders, the Selma-to-Montgomery marchers, the victims of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, and many more. Bus Ride to Justice is the exciting story of a courageous life in the courtrooms of America and in the pulpits of churches where Fred Gray began as a child preacher and continues today, and of a strong human being filled with love and admiration for his fellow man.