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Few people can say they knew Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks when that internationally celebrated pair were average citizens.
Fred D. Gray Sr. can.
The 90-year-old legendary civil rights lawyer has known most of the most-respected figures in the modern movement toward equality for Blacks. He represented Parks and King, persuading judges to make rulings that helped shape both of their lives. Gray’s courtroom victories led to many of the most important gains in reducing the vast disparity in rights that was a reality in America when he opened his first law office in Montgomery.
The Alabama Supreme Court confirmed Maddox’s death in a statement on Friday.
“He was a great man and will be sorely missed,” Scott Hoyem, a spokesman for the Alabama Supreme Court, wrote in a statement on Friday. A cause of death and list of survivors was not immediately available Friday afternoon.
Maddox earned a degree in journalism from the University of Alabama in 1952 and received his law degree from Alabama in 1957. In-between, Maddox served two years in the Air Force, and served in the Air Force Reserve for decades afterward. He retired as a colonel in the Air Force Reserve in 1982.