Constitution Day featuring Attorney Fred Gray

Join us for Constitution Day, featuring a talk by Attorney Fred Gray. The program will be held in Foy Hall Ballroom (Foy 258) and is free and open to the public.

Mr. Gray, perhaps the most noted civil rights attorney in the nation, will reflect on his unique and storied journey arguing for the constitutional rights of African Americans. In his first ten years as a lawyer, Attorney Gray was legal counsel in what would become four landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases and for over seven decades handled numerous civil rights cases, including the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study. His clients include Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Congressman John Lewis. Gray represented Harold Franklin in the lawsuit that desegregated Auburn University. In 2022, President Joe Biden awarded Gray the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor given in the United States.

Sponsored by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts, Auburn University Libraries, the Department of Political Science, and the Charles Wesley Edwards, Sr. Endowment for the Humanities. The Constitution Day lecture is a part of the Discover Auburn Lecture Series.

You may also like the following events from Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities at Pebble Hill:

• Next month, 18th September, 06:00 pm, Third Thursday Literary Series: Jacqueline Allen Trimble in Auburn
• Next month, 24th September, 11:30 am, Inspired by William Bartram: Southern Landscapes • Philip Juras in Auburn
• This October, 1st October, 11:30 am, The Defining Shared Years of Truman Capote and Harper Lee • Paul Dewey in Auburn

Also check out other Arts events in Auburn.