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MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The first capital of the Confederacy has renamed a street honoring the Confederate president to recognize a Black civil rights lawyer instead, despite an Alabama law meant to protect rebel monuments and memorials.

The Montgomery, Ala., City Council voted Tuesday night to rename Jeff Davis Avenue for 90-year-old attorney Fred D. Gray, who grew up on the street and went on to represent clients including Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks.

Her work on prisoner’s rights at Attica aimed to convey the humanity of incarcerated people. She later worked on diversity efforts for SUNY.

Alabama Newscenter Few people can say they knew Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks when that internationally celebrated pair were average citizens. Fred D. Gray Sr. can. The 90-year-old legendary civil rights lawyer has known most of the most-respected figures in the modern movement toward equality for Blacks. He represented Parks and King, persuading judges to make rulings that helped shape both of their lives. Gray’s courtroom victories led to many of the most important gains in redu...

The Words of Martin Luther King Jr. Reverberate in a Tumultuous Time Dr. King’s speeches have particular resonance today amid a year of sickness and death, Black Lives Matter protests and the storming of the Capitol. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. waving to the crowd during the March on Washington in 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial, where he gave his “I Have a Dream” speech.Credit...Central Press/Getty Images Published Jan. 18, 2021Updated Jan. 19, 2021 He lived and died in a time of tu...

Ga. Judge Wont Register Purged Voters For Senate Runoffs By By Rosie Manins Law360 (December 16, 2020, 5:12 PM EST) -- A Georgia federal judge on Wednesday said he will not restore the eligibility of almost 200,000 voters purged from the rolls in 2019 so they can vote in the Jan. 5 runoff elections for the states two U.S. Senate seats. U.S. District Judge Steve C. Jones said four multi-state voter advocacy groups that made the request have not proven a like...

A federal judge in Georgia is considering whether almost 200,000 people purged from the state's registered voters list in 2019 should immediately be added back so they can vote in the Jan. 5 runoff elections for two U.S Senate seats.