While hundreds of Lawrence County residents are still waiting for promised settlement checks in a contaminated drinking water ...

Prolific civil rights attorney Fred Gray talks outside of the Alabama Bar Association in downtown Montgomery, Ala., Thursday, April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Safiyah Riddle) ...

Safiyah Riddle. Prolific civil rights attorney Fred Gray talks outside of the Alabama Bar Association in downtown Montgomery, Ala., Thursday, April 24, 2025.

Prolific civil rights attorney Fred Gray talks outside of the Alabama Bar Association in downtown Montgomery, Ala., Thursday, April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Safiyah Riddle) ...

Prolific civil rights attorney Fred Gray talks outside of the Alabama Bar Association in downtown Montgomery, Ala., Thursday, April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Safiyah Riddle) ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Legendary attorney Fred Gray — once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — was honored with a statue outside ...

Prolific civil rights attorney Fred Gray talks outside of the Alabama Bar Association in downtown Montgomery, Ala., Thursday, April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Safiyah Riddle) ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Legendary attorney Fred Gray — once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — was honored with a statue outside ...

Statue honoring prolific civil rights attorney Fred Gray outside of the Alabama Bar Association looks in downtown Montgomery, Ala., Thursday, April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Safiyah Riddle) ...