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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.
Ross-Clayton Funeral Home was the largest Black funeral chapel in the city and has a long history of community service, particularly during the civil rights movement. [12] [13] The funeral home supported the movement by providing transportation for black voters and participating in the Montgomery bus boycott, [14] [15] conduct class for colored wardens, with E. P. Wallace, serving as the ...
Lionel Richie, graduated from Tuskegee University, rhythm & blues singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and occasional actor [40] Caughey Roberts , jazz alto sax player best known for his time in the Count Basie Orchestra in the 1930s [ 41 ]
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William McKinley Branch: [8] [9] [10] First African American male elected as a probate judge in Greene County, Alabama (1970) Arthur Crawford: [37] First African American male to serve as a probate judge in Hale County, Alabama; Theo Lawson II: [38] [39] First African American male to serve as the County Attorney of Jefferson County, Alabama (2016)
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]