As a young attorney, Gray helped defend some of the biggest names of the civil rights movement. If his life had a motto, it would be, as he often says, "To destroy everything segregated I could find."
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The highest civilian honor has been bestowed upon Montgomery native Fred Gray, as the legendary civil rights attorney received the Presidential Medal of Freedom during an official ceremony at the White House on Thursday.