From Mississippi-The Rt. Rev. Duncan Montgomery Gray Jr., a civil-rights advocate and retired bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi, died Friday. He was 89.
Gray died at his home in Jackson after having been in hospice care, said one of his sons, Lloyd Gray of Meridian. He said a funeral will be at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Cathedral in Jackson, but plans were still pending.
As rector of St. Peter’s Church in Oxford in the autumn of 1962, Gray called for calm as violence broke out in response to the court-ordered integration of the University of Mississippi in that city. Gray had been a chaplain on campus until 1961 and was known to students. According to Episcopal archives, Gray held onto the statue of a Confederate soldier near the main administrative building on campus and implored people not to riot.
In the pulpit of St. Peter’s, Gray denounced racism.
More here-
http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2016/07/15/retired-miss-episcopal-bishop-duncan-gray-jr-dies/87164428/
also here-
https://djournal.com/news/duncan-gray-jr-retired-bishop-activist-dies-jackson/
and here-
http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2016/07/16/former-mississippi-bishop-duncan-m-gray-jr-dies-after-brief-illness/
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