Fred D. Gray is one of the nation's leading civil rights attorneys. At age twenty-four, he was the lawyer for Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. His other cases and clients include the Freedom Riders, the Selma-to-Montgomery March, and many school desegregation and voting rights lawsuits.
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In 1932, the US Public Health Service recruited 623 African American men from Macon County, Alabama, for a study of 'the effects of untreated syphilis in the Negro male.' For the next forty years—even after the development of penicillin, the cure fo... SEE MORE