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Additional authors

1. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division

Summary

1. The collection consists of 143 audio recordings and 15 moving image recordings focusing primarily on Gray's career in the Congress. The holdings are available in the Moving Image and Recorded Sound (MIRS) Division.

Subject

1. Gray, William H., III
2. Congressional Black Caucus
3. United States. Congress
4. United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
5. United States. Congress -- Leadership
6. United States. Congress 1988)
7. United States. Congress 1989-1990)
8. United States. Congress 1991-1992)
9. African American legislators
10. African American legislators -- Pennsylvania
11. Anti-apartheid movements -- South Africa

Call number

1. Sc MIRS Gray 92-54

Source (note)

1. William H. Gray III

Biography (note)

1. William H. Gray III represented Pennsylvania's 2nd Congressional District in the House of Representatives from 1978 until he retired in 1991. He was the first African-American to serve as Majority Whip in the House of Representatives in 1989. The William H. Gray Congressional Records contain office, working and research files used and created by Gray, his office and the committees he served on during his tenure as the Democratic Representative of Pennsylvania. There are files for Gray's work with the Appropriations Budget; Foreign Affairs; and House Budget committees, and his involvement in the anti-Apartheid movement in South Africa. Gray introduced the Anti-Apartheid Act of 1985 (HR 1460) a bill that prohibited new loans and investments in South Africa, a precursor to the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 (HR 4868). There are also files for the Congressional Black Caucus, 100th, 101st, and 102nd Congresses, in addition to speeches given by Gray, news releases and press clippings which provide an overview of the congressman's legislative activities in Washington, D.C.

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of: William H. Gray III Congressional records, 1979-1991. Papers can be found in the Manuscript & Rare Books Division (Sc MG 469).

Author

1. Gray, William H., III.

Title

1. William H. Gray III Congressional records audio and moving image collection.

Biography

1. William H. Gray III represented Pennsylvania's 2nd Congressional District in the House of Representatives from 1978 until he retired in 1991. He was the first African-American to serve as Majority Whip in the House of Representatives in 1989. The William H. Gray Congressional Records contain office, working and research files used and created by Gray, his office and the committees he served on during his tenure as the Democratic Representative of Pennsylvania. There are files for Gray's work with the Appropriations Budget; Foreign Affairs; and House Budget committees, and his involvement in the anti-Apartheid movement in South Africa. Gray introduced the Anti-Apartheid Act of 1985 (HR 1460) a bill that prohibited new loans and investments in South Africa, a precursor to the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 (HR 4868). There are also files for the Congressional Black Caucus, 100th, 101st, and 102nd Congresses, in addition to speeches given by Gray, news releases and press clippings which provide an overview of the congressman's legislative activities in Washington, D.C.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of: William H. Gray III Congressional records, 1979-1991. Papers can be found in the Manuscript & Rare Books Division (Sc MG 469).

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Added author

1. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Research call number

1. Sc MIRS Gray 92-54