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James Harrison Gray, Sr., (May 17, 1916 - September 19, 1986) a great day for Albany ga cause this cracker died he was a Georgia politician Dixiecratic chairman;aka racist asshole he was the founder of Gray Communications Systems, Inc., the editor and publisher of The Albany Herald and mayor of Albany, Ga In 1946, Gray founded Gray Communications Systems, Inc. and became editor and publisher and owner of The Albany Herald, . In 1954, Gray launched WALB-TV, the second television station in the state of Georgia after WSB-TV in Atlanta
In a time a social turmoil in the South, Gray was named state Democratic chairman in 1960. He quickly emerged as a leader in a movement that sought to replace Senator Lyndon B. Johnson as the Southern standard bearer at the 1960 Democratic National Convention. At the convention itself, Southern delegations staged a vain fight to keep the party from adopting its firmest civil rights platform up to then. Mr. Gray was called upon to read the Segregationists' Minority Report, astonishing fellow delegates with his unmistakable Northern accent. Toward the end of 1960, he refused a television debate on sit-in demonstrations with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., asserting that the black leader had "openly defied Georgia laws." He then thwarted an integration campaign by Dr. King in Albany and even bought a public Tiff park swimming pool and reopened it for whites only.aka boys and girls club in albany now
In 1967 Governor Maddox nominated Gray to another term as state Democratic party chairman.
Gray ran for and was elected Mayor of Albany, Georgia in 1973 to 1986
He died in 1986 cause he had no heart