Let's talk about Fred Gray, Alabama, and a new south....
Belle of the Ranch
Belle of the Ranch
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🗓️ 30 November 2021
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:20.0 | Well, howdy there, internet people people let's bow again so today we are going to |
| 0:26.6 | talk about Fred D gray not Freddie Gray Fred D. Middle Initial, Gray, and Montgomery, Alabama. Now if you're not |
| 0:38.2 | familiar with Fred Gray, if you don't recognize that name, I can assure you you're familiar with his work. |
| 0:46.4 | You know some of the things he accomplished. |
| 0:49.9 | He was born in 1930, so he's 90, 91 years old, something like that now. |
| 0:57.0 | Spent time in Montgomery, Alabama and on Jefferson Davis Avenue. |
| 1:04.0 | And it was there that he swore he would destroy everything that was segregated. |
| 1:12.0 | And he did everything he could to keep that promise. |
| 1:17.0 | Some of his clients who you might have heard of at some point include Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvent, the some people from the Tuskegee |
| 1:28.6 | experiment. Martin Luther King, he got Martin Luther King off on tax evasion charges. |
| 1:37.8 | In front of an all white jury, Martin Luther King referred to him as the general counsel of the movement. |
| 1:50.0 | Court cases include, what is it, Browder versus Gail and Alabama versus Dixon and a whole |
| 1:57.4 | bunch of others that I'm sure I don't know. He went on in 1985. He was president of the National Bar Association. In 2001, he became |
| 2:09.8 | the first black president of the Alabama State Bar. |
| 2:14.7 | Incredibly accomplished man. |
| 2:19.1 | Now the city of Montgomery decided to name a road after him, and a fitting one would be, you know, Jefferson |
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