In addition to Gray’s regular Sunday services in Rosedale, on Thursdays he would drive the twenty-some miles there to visit with his parishioners. Looking back, he remembers fondly as “fun” going to see “little old ladies at three o’clock in the afternoon.” Other parts of the day he might spend wandering around Rosedale’s small business […]

Gray wrote, “First, during that senior year, I heard every argument possible for preserving segregation in all areas of public life, but especially in our schools and our colleges. I was prepared for every argument that I ever heard in the next twenty years back in Mississippi. There was nothing new. “Second, during those two […]

McNair’s theological liberalism was matched by his political liberalism. He was a frequent visitor at Myles Horton’s Highlander Folk School, then just down the road from Sewanee in Summerfield, Tennessee, and Gray was his frequent companion on these trips. Highlander is best known as the place that helped provide Rosa Parks with the spark she […]