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Gilbert Gray: Firebrand & Activist

Two images of a man.  One si wearing overalls, the other a white suit.
Gilbert Gray memorial service program, April 1997 Cover. View in our Digital Collection

Not that everyone always agreed. Both Gray and Williams admit they had black neighbors who would have opted for the status quo, who thought of them as troublemakers, ‘uppity’ in the southern vernacular. The same charge, they remember, was made of Dr. King.

— LeBaron, Gaye. “Sit-ins and ‘Boat Rocking’ — Black History in the 1960s.” Santa Rosa Press Democrat, January 19, 1986.