Box 26 - Gray, President William H.

This file documents President William H. Gray’s professional affiliations, correspondence, and institutional leadership activities with local, regional, national, religious, civic, educational, philanthropic, and governmental organizations between 1940 and 1967.

Materials include correspondence, reports, newsletters, proceedings, publications, press releases, and organizational records reflecting Gray’s engagement with higher education administration, interracial cooperation initiatives, economic development efforts, honor societies, religious institutions, and federal agencies.

Organizations represented include the Board of Control for Southern Regional Education; Southern Regional Council; Southern Education Foundation; General Education Board; Julius Rosenwald Fund; Conference of Presidents of Negro Land Grant Colleges; Conference on the Negro in Business (U.S. Department of Commerce); Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce; Tallahassee City Commission; Capital City National Bank; Citizens Committee and Citizens and Southern Bank and Trust Company; Bright Hope Baptist Church (Philadelphia, PA); Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; Colored Elks of Florida; Elks National Oratorical Contest; Florida State Conference of Social Work; Commission of Interracial Cooperation (Tuskegee, AL); Grand Accepted Order of Brothers and Sisters of Love and Charity; Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society; Pallbearers’ Grand Union; and U.S. Armed Forces – War Department – Bureau of Public Relations.

The file also contains correspondence with key individuals such as Arthur G. Askey (Assistant Comptroller, General Education Board), W. W. Brierly (Secretary, General Education Board), Robert Calkins (Vice President and Director), Jackson Davis (Director and Vice President), Fred McCuistion (Associate Director), Dixon J. Curtis (Vice President and Executive Director, Southern Education Foundation), John E. Ivey, Jr. (Executive Secretary, Southern Regional Education Board), and W. J. McGlothlin (Associate Director).

Included are wartime press releases from the U.S. War Department (May–August 1943), documentation related to FAMC faculty development and nursing education (1946–1948), honor society publications and handbooks, regional education board materials, and the 1945 publication titled “A Work Conference Preparatory to a Study of Negro Education in Florida: A Report of Findings Prepared for the Florida Citizens Committee on Education.”

Materials are arranged alphabetically by organization and correspondent, and chronologically within individual files when applicable. Collectively, these records provide insight into President Gray’s role in advancing Black higher education, regional educational cooperation, economic advocacy, wartime public information efforts, and institutional development at Florida A&M College during the mid-twentieth century.

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