On his way home from Washington where he had attended the commemoration of the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama civil rights lawyer Fred Gray—one of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s first lawyers—reminded an Atlanta audience Thursday that the movement's often overlooked attorneys ended legal segregation in the South.
Fred Gray, now 82, was one of those lawyers. He recalled that as a young man forced by Jim Crow laws to leave his home state to earn a law degree, he determined to return to Alabama and "destroy everything segregated I could find."
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