And One Was A Priest

The Life and Times of Duncan M. Gray Jr.

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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 […]

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August 14, 2016

Biography Excerpts – Chapter 2

On Saturday, September 29, Ole Miss met the University of Kentucky in a football game played in Jackson. Before the game began, Ole Miss students had displayed what was billed as “the largest Confederate flag in the world.” At halftime, Ole Miss was ahead 7-0, and hysteria was reaching a new peak. When the crowd […]

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August 14, 2016

Biography Excerpts – Chapter 1

Late in the evening of September 30, 1962, the Rev. Duncan M. Gray, Jr. mounted the base of the Confederate monument on the campus of the University of Mississippi. A slight, balding man in glasses, he shouted to be heard above the din. “General! General! Speak to these students! You can persuade them! Tell them […]

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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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