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August 14, 2016

Biography Excerpts – Chapter 3

“Mississippi’s not a state; it’s a club.”

This saying, once common among white Mississippians of an older generation, aptly describes, for better and for worse, the most “Southern” of states….

Today this “clubbiness” of Mississippi often transcends race and sometimes even class, especially for expatriates, but in the first half of the twentieth century the “club” was very much a white, usually upper class, male one.

Duncan Gray Jr., therefore, had automatic membership.

Article by Canton / Excerpts

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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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