Fred Gray (LAW 鈥�54, HON 鈥�92)

Fred Gray arrived at Western Reserve University when no law school in Alabama would accept Black students. After law school, Gray returned to Montgomery to serve as a preacher and start a legal practice鈥攑roviding legal counsel for Rosa Parks following her arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger.

He later represented Black students denied admission to the University of Alabama, and in 1972, represented subjects of the Tuskegee Study.