First Black to Take Oath as President of State Bar
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Fred Gray Sr., who defended Rosa Parks in her landmark bus desegregation case and represented victims of the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment, has broken another racial barrier at 71: He has become the first black president of the Alabama bar.
With his installation today, the civil rights lawyer assumes a post that white attorneys normally achieve in their 50s.
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