‘A lawyer by trade and a preacher at heart’ — Fred Gray receives Presidential Medal of Freedom
WASHINGTON — The East Room of the White House was filled with American heroes Thursday including Fred Gray, one of 17 recipients of the Presidential…
Martin Luther King Jr.
Fred Gray to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom
Fred Gray is headed to the White House — again. A renowned civil rights attorney, the Church of Christ minister and elder is one of…
Montgomery, Ala., names street after Fred Gray
The Alabama city where Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her bus seat to a White, male passenger in 1955 will rename a street…
Ousted by Democrats, anti-abortion preacher runs as independent in Tennessee
As a teen, longtime Tennessee state Rep. John DeBerry Jr. integrated an all-White high school and witnessed civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.’s final…
‘It is critical that all of us get along, especially in the church.’
SEARCY, Ark. — ‘If I can help somebody, as I pass along, if I can cheer somebody, with a word or song. If I can show…
A moment of doubt on the road to Memphis
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — We don’t often think of Martin Luther King Jr. as a man who ever wavered in his resolve to crusade for civil rights.…
‘Before I was a civil rights leader, I was a preacher of the Gospel’
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Fifty years ago, on April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed in my hometown. He was 39.…
