Terri A. Sewell tweeted the following:
"(1) Today, we are highlighting a true American hero and one our nations most distinguished Civil Rights Attorney Fred Gray. Attorney Gray worked as one of the few Black lawyers in Alabama during the 1950s representing the likes of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks."Read on Twitter
Here are other recent tweets from Terri A. Sewell:
"This morning I welcomed @SenatorWarnock to Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church in Montgomery for Black History Month! Thank you so much for coming Senator and pouring into these young people on this auspicious occasion, they are our present and our future." on Feb. 12Read on Twitter
"She later became one of the first Black students to integrate her junior high school, enduring threats & harassment from classmates. While the nation knows her as a pioneering activist, I am proud to call her my former baby-sitter, mentor, & lifelong friend. #BlackHistoryMonth" on Feb. 12Read on Twitter
"In January 1965, 8 year-old Sheyann Webb made her way into Brown Chapel AME Church for a mass meeting where she would soon become one of the youngest Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement and bravely march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday." on Feb. 12Read on Twitter
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