Mr Fred Gray: 2 books
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
An Insiders’ Account of the Shocking Medical Experiment Conducted by Government Doctors Against African American Men
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
In 1932, the U.S. 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 40 years—even after the development of penicillin, the cure for syphilis—these men were denied medical care...
Bus Ride to Justice (Revised Edition)
Changing the System by the System, the Life and Works of Fred Gray
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
First published in 1995, Bus Ride to Justice, the best-selling autobiography by acclaimed civil rights attorney Fred D. Gray, appears now in a newly revised edition that updates Gray’s remarkable career of “destroying everything segregated that I could find.” Of particular interest will be the...