Author of book on Bishop Duncan Gray Jr. to speak today, sign books
A new book is telling the story of Duncan Gray Jr., one of the unsung heroes of the civil rights movement.
Author Araminta Stone Johnson will speak at noon today (May 11) at the William F. Winter Archives and History Building, 200 North Street, in downtown Jackson, Miss., and sign copies of her book, And One Was a Priest: The Life and Times of Duncan M. Gray Jr.
Signed copies are also available at Lemuria Books.
Lemurias website gives this summary of the book:
From one perspective, Gray (b. 1926) would seem an unlikely spokesman for racial equality and reconciliation. He could have been content simply to become a member of the white, male Missisippi club. Gray could have embraced a comfortable life and ignored the burning realities around him.
But he chose instead to use his priesthood to speak in unpopular but prophetic support of justice and equality for African Americans. From his student days at the seminary at the University of the South, to his first church in Cleveland, Mississippi, and most famously to St. Peters Parish in Oxford, where he confronted rioters in 1962, Gray steadfastly and fearlessly fought the status quo. He continued to work for racial reconciliation, inside and outside of the church, throughout his life.
Heres a video interview with Gray:
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