Fred David Gray is an American civil rights attorney, preacher, activist, and state legislator from Alabama. He handled many prominent civil rights cases, such as Browder v. Gayle, and was elected to
Fred Gray at an exhibition opening about Rosa Parks at the Library of Congress with Terri Sewell in 2019.
Gray awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Joe Biden in July 2022
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American civil rights activist. She is best known for her 1955 refusal to move from her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in defiance of Jim Crow racial segregati
Parks in 1956
The No. 2857 bus on which Parks was riding before her arrest is now a museum exhibit at the Henry Ford Museum.
The seat layout on the bus where Parks sat, December 1, 1955
Police report on Parks, December 1, 1955, page 1