Constitution Day featuring Attorney Fred Gray

Name: Constitution Day featuring Attorney Fred Gray
Start: 2025-09-17T16:00:00-05:00
Location: James E. Foy Hall

Schedule

Wed, 17 Sep, 2025 at 04:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

James E. Foy Hall | Auburn, AL

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.