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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464987503321

Autore

Johnston Araminta Stone

Titolo

And one was a priest [[electronic resource] ] : the life and times of Duncan M. Gray, Jr. / / Araminta Stone Johnston

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2011

ISBN

1-283-06963-6

9786613069634

1-60473-829-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 p.)

Disciplina

283.092

B

Soggetti

Race relations - Religious aspects - Episcopal Church - History

Electronic books.

Southern States Race relations History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER 1. "Stop This Violence!": University of Mississippi, September 1962; CHAPTER 2. "What Is Just and Right": Oxford, Mississippi, 1962; CHAPTER 3. "The Family Is a Primary Source of Grace": Lineage; CHAPTER 4. "They Said I Should Be an Engineer": Tulane and Westinghouse, 1944-50; CHAPTER 5. "He Is a Natural": University of the South, 1950-52; CHAPTER 6. "Faith Can Move Mountains": University of the South, 1953; CHAPTER 7. "Little Old Ladies at Three O'clock in the Afternoon": Mississippi Delta, 1953-54

CHAPTER 8. "Segregation Is Incompatible with the Christian Gospel": Mississippi, 1955-56CHAPTER 9. "We Are Responsible": Oxford, 1957-62; CHAPTER 10. "They Wouldn't Feel Comfortable until I Was Gone": Oxford, 1963-65; CHAPTER 11. The Philadelphia Murders: Mississippi, 1964; CHAPTER 12. "We Must Return to the Dream": Meridian, 1965-68; CHAPTER 13. "We Are Inevitably Involved": Meridian, 1968-74; CHAPTER 14. "The Bishop's Role Is to Be a Pastor": Jackson, 1974-93; AFTERWORD. "I'm Not a Crusader": Retirement; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX



Sommario/riassunto

The story of the civil rights movement is not simply the history of its major players but is also the stories of a host of lesser-known individuals whose actions were essential to the movement's successes. Duncan M. Gray Jr., an Episcopal priest who served various Mississippi parishes between 1953 and 1974, when he was elected bishop of Mississippi, is one of these individuals. And One Was a Priest is his remarkable story. 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 whi