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Fred David Gray (born December 14, 1930) 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 the Alabama House of Representatives in 1970, along with Thomas Reed , both from Tuskegee.
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Gomillion and his attorneys appealed the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. The case was argued by Fred Gray, an Alabama civil rights attorney, and Robert L. Carter, lead counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, with assistance from Arthur D. Shores. The defense was led by James J. Carter.
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For four decades, the United States government enrolled hundreds of Black men in Alabama in a study on syphilis, just so they could document the disease's ravages on the human body.
Reed and Fred Gray were the first black people elected to the Alabama state legislature since the end of Reconstruction. [16] [17] Reed was sworn in prior to Gray, technically making him the first. [18] Governor George Wallace lived within Reed's district. [19] Reed announced that his campaign for the 1974 election on December 19, 1972. [20]
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