TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Paul Burch on Jun 15, 2023

The American Bar Association will award the 2023 ABA Medal to Fred D. Gray, who was described by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as “the chief counsel” of the civil rights movement. Gray will accept the award at the ABA’s Annual Meeting in Denver in August. Gray played a crucial role in many of the movement’s key moments including representing Rosa Parks, serving as the chief legal strategist during the Montgomery bus boycott and representing marchers in Selma in 1965.