Bus Ride to Justice: Changing the System by the System, the Life and Works of Fred Gray

Name: Bus Ride to Justice: Changing the System by the System, the Life and Works of Fred Gray
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ISBN: 9781588382863

ISBN-10: 1588382869

ISBN-13: 9781588382863

Edition: 2012

Authors: Fred D. Gray

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First published in 1995, Bus Ride to Justice, the best-selling autobiography by acclaimed civil rights attorney Fred D. Gray, appears now in a newly revised edition that updates Gray's remarkable career of "destroying everything segregated that I could find." Of particular interest will be the details Gray reveals for the first time about Rosa Parks's 1955 arrest. Gray was the young lawyer for Parks and also Martin Luther King Jr. and the Montgomery Improvement Association, which organized the 382-day Montgomery Bus Boycott after Parks's arrest. As the last survivor of that inner circle, Gray speaks about the strategic reasons Parks was presented as a demure, random victim of Jim Crow…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: John F Blair Pub
Binding: Cloth Text
Pages: 400
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English



Preface to the Revised Edition


Foreword to the 1995 Edition


Acknowledgments to the 1995 Edition


Introduction to the 1995 Edition


The Making of a Lawyer


The Bus Protest Begins


The City's Get-Tough Policy


Black Justice, White Law


State of Alabama v. NAACP


Seeking the Ballot and Other Rights


George Wallace Assisted Me


Dr. King's Most Serious Charge


Times v. Sullivan: The New Law of Libel


Sit-ins, Freedom Rides, Freedom Walks


'With All Deliberate Speed'


Selma Once More


A Selection of Photographs


Denial and Dilution of Voting Rights


Fred Gray, the Politician


Fred Gray, the Preacher


The Family


A University That Should Not Have Been


The Tuskegee Syphilis Study


The Judgeship That Was Not To Be


Post-'Judgeship'


My Challenge to Young Lawyers


Vestiges of Discrimination


Four Who Affected My Legal Career


The Many Faces of Power


Epilogue to the 1995 Edition


Epilogue to the Revised Edition


Table of Cases


Appendices


Index