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Historical marker honoring the Graetz to be unveiled in Sunday ceremony View Comments The late Robert and Jeannie Graetz, who endured multiple attacks due to their support of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, will be honored Sunday during a ceremony to unveil a historic marker outside their home on Dunbar Street. It s something that is long overdue, historian Richard Bailey, who organized the ceremony, said. When we reflect on the contribution of Robert and Jeannie Gratez, we find a couple that dedicated their lives for the advancement of humanity, specifically civil rights. The historical marker will be unveiled Sunday at 2 p.m. Mayor Steven Reed will open the ceremony and several speakers, including Attorney Fred Gray, will share their memories with the Graetz family. Bailey also compiled a 50-page souvenir program for those who attend. His hope, Bailey said, is to give people who were not in Montgomery or alive during the boycott a better understanding and appr ....
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 reducing the vast disparity in rights that was a reality in America when he opened his first law office in Montgomery. ....
Sewell lends support for Medal of Freedom for Fred Gray, urges Biden to honor civil rights lawyer Updated Feb 17, 2021; U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Birmingham, urged President Biden to award the Medal of Honor to 90-year-old Alabama civil rights attorney Fred Gray, calling the personal lawyer for Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks and other civil rights era activists “a true American patriot.” “As a Black lawyer and as Alabama’s first Black Congresswoman, I am a direct beneficiary of Attorney Fred Gray’s lifelong work in the fight for justice, inclusion and equity for all. His litigation in groundbreaking cases like ....