Duncan M. Gray, Jr.

For other people of the same name, see Duncan Gray (disambiguation).

Duncan Montgomery Gray, Jr. (born September 21, 1926 in Canton, Mississippi) was the 7th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi (a middle judicatory of the Episcopal Church, USA). As a priest in the southern United States, Gray is best known for his work as a civil rights activist, and his story was included in the University of Mississippi's Civil Rights Documentation Project.[1]

Gray's father, Duncan M. Gray, Sr., and his son, Duncan M. Gray, III, are respectively the fifth and ninth Bishops of the Diocese of Mississippi.

He is the subject of book by Will D. Campbell, And Also With You: Duncan Gray and the American Dilemma.

References

  1. ↑ Homepage of the project, and Gray's transcript.


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