Box 27 - Gray, President William H.

This file documents President William H. Gray’s scholarly publications, educational writings, speeches, and collected materials spanning 1936 to 1960. The records reflect Gray’s early academic contributions, intellectual leadership in Negro education, engagement with higher education reform, and later public addresses and institutional documentation.

Included are authored and co-authored publications from his tenure at Southern University, such as The Geography of North America and Louisiana – Work Book (1936) and Methods in Teaching: Outline of Educational Principles and Concepts. The file also contains printed works addressing Black higher education and public policy, including Why a Florida State Training Hospital for Negroes? (1945), Quarterly Review of Higher Education Among Negroes (1943), and A Work Conference Preparatory to a Study of Negro Education in Florida: A Report of Findings Prepared for the Florida Citizens Committee on Education (1945).

Additional materials include a 1946 edition of Negro Motorists’ Green Book – Vacation Wide – Summer Resorts, reflecting broader social and travel contexts of the period; the Spiritual Rehabilitation Program (1960); handwritten and typewritten speech notes by President Gray; and an oversized scrapbook titled “Florida and Education” (1946–47), compiled by Florida A&M College and noted as fragile and requiring conservation.

Materials are arranged alphabetically by publication title and format, with chronological order applied where applicable. Collectively, these records document Gray’s intellectual contributions to Black education, his advocacy for institutional reform in Florida, and his role as a scholar-administrator during a transformative period in twentieth-century African American educational history.

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