Identifier:
mus-coh_grayd
Description:
Oral history.; Duncan Montgomery Gray Jr. attended high school in Greenwood and Jackson, Mississippi, and graduated from Central High, Jackson, in 1944. He earned an electrical engineering degree at Tulane University, in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1948 and received a commission in the U.S. Navy that same year. He worked for two years for the Westinghouse Corporation before entering seminary at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, where he earned his M.Div. degree in 1953. In 1972, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Divinity degree by the University of the South. After being ordained deacon in April, 1953, and priest in October, 1953, by his father, Bishop Duncan M. Gray of the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi, he served in numerous leadership positions in the Episcopal Church. Bishop Gray has also been active in many civic and community affairs, both locally and statewide.
Creator:
Gray, Duncan Montgomery; Williams, Donald
Date:
1999-04-16
Format:
Digital reproduction of a 27-minute, 47-second oral history.
Rights Statement:
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Collection:
Civil Rights Documentation Project: Meridian
Finding Aid:
Source:
E185.93.M6 C58 vol. 1
