1-58838-113-7
$19.95 paperback
6 x 9
416 pages
B-W photographs, appendix, index
NewSouth Books
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"A valuable
record of the ground-level struggle for civil rights."—New
York Times Book Review
Bus Ride to Justice is the
autobiography of civil rights attorney Fred Gray. Gray grew up in
Montgomery, Alabama, but had to leave the state to complete his law
degree because blacks could not then attend Alabama law schools.
He returned to his hometown in 1954, and became one of two black lawyers
in the city.
When his friend Rosa Parks was arrested in
1955 for violating the segregated seating ordinance on a Montgomery bus,
26 year old Martin Luther King, Jr. was chosen to lead the Montgomery
Bus Boycott, and 24-year old Fred Gray became his—and the movement's—
lawyer.
Since then, his cases and clients
have included the Montgomery March, the victims of the Tuskegee Syphilis
Study, and the desegregation of schools, housing, accommodations, and
more.
about the author
Fred Gray grew up in Montgomery, Alabama. He is a graduate
of the Nashville Christian Institute, Alabama State University, and Case
Western Reserve University. He also received an Honorary Doctor of
Laws degree from the University of Massachusetts. Gray is a senior
partner at the law firm of Gray, Langford, Sapp, McGowan, Gray &
Nathanson. He was also the first African-American President of the
Alabama State Bar Association.
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