Bus Ride to Justice

This autobiography by one of the nation's most distinguished civil rights lawyers tells of his childhood in segregated Montgomery, and his departure from Alabama to attend a nonsegregated law school. On graduation, he returned to his home, determined to "destroy everything segregated I could find". Soon after beginning his law practice, he defended Rosa Parks when she refused to yield her seat on a city bus, thus launching the modem civil rights movement. Attorney Gray, only 25 years old, took that case to the U.S. Supreme Court and won. Over the next 40 years, his lawsuits established important principles of law in voting rights, education, public accommodations, public safety, housing, assembly and speech, and jury selection.