He served as the President of the National Bar Association in 1985 and the first African-American President of the Alabama Bar Association.Gray was arguably the foremost lawyer in Alabama during the civil rights movement . He came to prominence working with Martin Luther King, Jr., E.D. Nixon, Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Improvement Association during the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 (Browder v. Gale). Other notable cases include: Gomillion v. Lightfoot (redistricting of Tuskegee, ultimately affording political power to blacks in that city), Williams v. Wallace (protected Selma to Montgomery marchers), and Lee v. Macon (desegregation of all state public schools). He also represented plaintiffs in the class-action lawsuit in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study (Pollard v. U.S.).
Gray is a member of Omega Psi Phi and Sigma Pi Phi. Gray's religious affiliation is the Church of Christ.
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