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Bus ride to justice : changing the system by the system : the life and works of Fred Gray, preacher, attorney, politician /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gray, Fred D., 1930-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Montgomery, AL : NewSouth Books, [2013]
Edition:Rev. ed. 2013.
Subjects:
Gray, Fred D., > 1930-
African American lawyers > Biography.
Civil rights workers > United States > Biography.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > History > 20th century.
African American lawyers.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc.
Civil rights workers.
United States.
1900-1999
Biography.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The making of a lawyer
  • The bus protest begins
  • The city's get-tough policy
  • Black justice, white law
  • State of Alabama v. NAACP
  • Seeking the ballot and other rights
  • George Wallace assisted me
  • Dr. King's most serious charge
  • Times v. Sullivan : the new law of libel
  • Sit-ins, freedom rides, freedom walks
  • 'With all deliberate speed'
  • Selma once more
  • Denial and dilution of voting rights
  • Fred Gray, the politician
  • Fred Gray, the preacher
  • The family
  • A university that should have been
  • The Tuskegee syphilis study
  • The judgeship that was not to be
  • Post-'judgeship'
  • My challenge to young lawyers
  • Vestiges of discrimination
  • Four who affected my legal career
  • The many faces of power.