Fred Gray and his mother, Nancy Jones Gray, at her store in Montgomery, ca. 1950. Fred Gray attended Alabama State College in Montgomery before earning a law degree at Cleveland's Western Reserve University Law School (now Case Western Reserve University) by age 23.
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