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August 14, 2016

Biography Excerpts – Chapter 11

He [Gray] concluded, “In short, as regrettable as the cause may be, the fact remains that the violent reaction precipitated by the COFO program [Congress of Federated Programs] among one element of white Mississippians has in turn produced the first signs of a creative and constructive approach on the part of many responsible whites to the whole question of civil rights.

“I would emphasize that there has been only the slightest beginning and much of this, perhaps, only out of desperation, but I do think that much of what has happened, even if indirectly, has been the result of the summer program.”

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“…it will be through countless small words and deeds, done in the name of Christ by Christians, that this University, this community, and this state will yet redeem themselves…”

– Duncan M. Gray, Jr., 1962

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