Fred Gray, Sr., an attorney with a historic legacy from the civil rights movement of the 1950s appears to have allowed greed and hatred to overcome his judgment when he allegedly conspired with others to destroy the reputation and political career of the first female to be elected Mayor of the City of Tuskegee, Alabama by 63% of the vote.
Fred Gray and others claimed the Mayor Dunn and some other City Council Members, except his favorite, Mae Doris Williams, conspired to use the Mayor's office illegally for personal gain. These charges were held over three Council Member's heads until they reinstated Gray's law firm as Tuskegee's City Attorney. The charges were then dropped against the Council members. But, not Mayor Dunn. The phony charges still exist against her.
Mayor Lucenia Williams Dunn represented something that Tuskegee had never experienced under Black-rule: honesty, integrity and accountability. As the white segregationist use to say, she threatened "their way of life." And what was that way of life in Tuskegee: A few, including Attorney Fred Gray, Sr., with everything and the majority with little or nothing.
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