Louis Gregory Across America Project
Mr. Gregory’s extensive , sacrificial travels around our country for the cause of oneness in relation to Baha’i scriptures that say: “The movement itself from place to place, when undertaken for the sake of God, hath always exerted, and can now exert, its influence in the world. In the Books of old the station of them that have voyaged far and near in order to guide the servants of God hath been set forth and written down." (Baha’u’llah, in Shoghi Effendi, The Advent of Divine Justice, p. 84). About those travels we still know little. However, Baha'is now live in all of these locations, and can document, photograph and share scholarship on each of them. Bahaipedia has been set up to record our shared efforts.
First US SOUTH tour - 1910 - Richmond, Durham, Charleston, Macon, ENFIELD, WILMINGTON, Augusta & AIKEN
Gregory’s first teaching trip for the religion included Richmond, Virginia; Durham, North Carolina; Charleston, South Carolina; and Macon, Georgia. This would have been across later October into December 1910, that in Gregory’s estimation reached an audience altogether of some 900 people. Echoing The Charleston Messenger there was coverage of Gregory and Alfonzo Twine giving talks in South Carolina. Twine gave a talk on the founder of the Young People's Union, Dr. S. H. Jenins, while Gregory gave a talk at the Morris Brown AME Church Nov 21. (Contribute here)
FIRST US NORTH TOUR - 1911 - Elliot, Chicago & Buffalo
In August 1911 Gregory was on a speaking tour to New England - and it was news in Minnesota, where Gregory visited Green Acre for the first time. Later in August, Gregory gave a talk at the Douglass Center in Chicago on "Life in the Far East”, and for a talk for the Bahá'í meeting in Chicago too. On his way back to DC he stopped in Buffalo to talk at the home of John Harrison Mills at the end of August on two evenings (Contribute here)
SECOND US Northern Tour - 1913- Chicago and New York
In Mid-February, Gregory spoke on "Lincoln, the Great Emancipator" at a meeting at The Institutional AME Church at 3825 Dearborn St, Chicago, then under Rev. Archibald J. Carey, Sr.
Gregory was a guest of Thomas W. & Mrs. Fleming the previous week and spoke at a reception they hosted and at Mrs. Dr. Barton Peake's 3606 Prospect Ave home to an audience of whites and some blacks. In New York, Gregory spoke at the US National Convention. (Contribute here)
THIRD NORTHERN TOUR - 1914 - New York
Gregory attended and spoke at the 1914 national convention on the oneness of humanity(both in terms of equality of the sexes and in interracial unity. He also was on a committee that performed an audit of the national fund. (Contribute here)
Fourth Northern Tour - 1916 - Chicago, ELLIOT, Boston & Hartford,
Gregory listed as an alternate delegate to the national convention in Chicago and one of its speakers. And wrote about it as a convention reporter for the Star of the West.
In early September Gregory spoke in Boston at the St. John’s Congregational Church while visiting Fisk classmate Rev. Dr. William N. DeBerry. His talk was "The Unity of Mankind”. He had come from Green Acre on his way back to DC. A few days later he was at the Talcott St. Congregational Church in Hartford, Connecticut, giving a talk "Principles of the Bahai Movement” (Contribute Here)
First American Tour - 1917 - Willmington, Washington DC, Atlanta, Boston, Willmington a second time, Memphis, Brooklyn, Scranton, Cleveland, Chicago & St. Louis
In March Gregory gave a talk in Wilmington DE at Thomas Garrett Settlement (301 E 7th St, Wilmington, DE 19801) on 'Universal Peace’. The Baha'i Faith was scheduled to be presented to the BLHA in Washington DC via Joseph H. Hannen, William P. Ripley, Juliette Thompson, and Ellen V. Beecher. Juliet spoke of "Personal Reminiscences of Abdul Baha" and Mrs Beecher "The Great Invitation" and Mr. Hannen on "Bahai Principles". There was an enthusiastic audience and Gregory was asked for many answers to questions. Present were also Rev. W. C. Brown of John Wesley AME Church, Rev. Stepteau, Rev. Tate, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Moten and Frank B. Williams. Additionally a poem was read by Caroline W. Harris and a quintet performed. S. M. Dudley called for a motion of thanks. Meanwhile by Spring Gregory was in touch with white Baha’is and seekers in Atlanta - James Elmore Hays and Dr. James Charles Oakshette. Gregory served as alternate delegate (a practice no longer followed) to the national convention for Ridvan. Gregory attended the national convention held in Boston at the Brunswick Hotel, spoke at the convention, and gave a public talk on equality of the sexes. He then gave another on "The Harmony of Religion and Science". By Aug 20 he was in Boston giving a talk “The Equality of Men and Women” and pointed out that “thralldom rests heavily upon the oppressor as upon the oppressed.” Later Gregory returned for a talk in Wilmington, DE in the Thomas Garrett Settlement. By September Gregory was in Memphis supporting George Henderson’s community work and development of a college and the Baha’is amounted to 60 people. Gregory talk "Oneness of Humanity and Human Brotherhood" spoke at the Brooklyn Nazarene Congregational Church. Nazarene.
By November, Gregory was reported visting Dr. J. E. Oster in Scranton, PA, and gave talks at Shiloh Baptist and Bethel AME Churches. In November he writes being on his way to Chicago while in Cleveland for a racially integrated unity Feast at a public hall. At Mrs. True’s home in Chicago after the observance of the Birth of Baha’u’llah in 1917, Gregory spoke on "The New Educational System of Bahá’-u-’lláh”. Gregory spoke at a Chicago YMCA meeting on Sunday on the Baha'i Faith. The end of November he was in St. Louis. (Contribute Here).
SIXTH SOUTHERN TOUR - 1920 - Oklahoma City, OK, Dallas, TX, Corpus Christi, TX, Austin, TX, Shreveport, LA, New Orleans, LA, Willmington DE, Cambridge MD, Louisville KY, WILLMINGTON DE again, DC, Chattanooga, TN
SEVENTH NORTHERN TOUR - 1921 - Chicago, ELLIOT MAINE, BOSTON, MA, ROCHESTER, NY, TOLEDO OH, OBERLIN, CLEVELAND, CHICAGO, St. Paul Minnesota, DULUTH, OMAHA, DENVER, PUEBLO, Salt Lake City,
1924
Gregory was part of a series of meetings in New York with a set held in Bethel AME Church in Harlem (Contribute here)
1928
Boston Center at 12 Huntington Ave. Chicago the second Race Amity Convention was held at the Masonic Temple at 32 W. Randolph St on the twelfth floor and included Gregory . Gregory was among the speakers at the Montreal Race Amity meeting of Feb 1928. Feb 11-12 Gregory spoke at the Urbana Race Amity Conference. Gregory and Mrs Harlan Ober were scheduled to speak at the Brooklyn Baha'i Center 119 W 57th St. Gregory gave a talk "How to Remove Prejudices" at the March 23 "big meeting" at the YMCA in Harlem. Gregory visited offices of The Defender and had given a talk at the convention and was off to Urbana. Gregory talk at 219 S. Cedar St., Lansing, Michigan. Gregory spoke at the conference held at the Teaneck properties in West Englewood. Gregory speaks at People's Baptist Church in Portsmouth NH. September began 4 month tour of the South spit around a late fall meeting of the NSA. The first leg included New York City, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, D.C. and Durham. In Durham he spoke at churches and schools including one high school on “The Meaning of Bahá’i (Light)’’ attended by 540 high school students. Gregory spoke at Shaw in the Chapel through the YMCA. Oct 19 Gregory addressed faculty and students at Shaw University.The second leg of his Fall tour included Maryland and Virginia, and Washington. Gregory spoke to the Baptist Ministers Conference in Richmond held at the St. John Baptist Church in Ginter Park in Richmond VA. Gregory was in Baltimore speaking at the YMCA early December .
1930
Gregory talk at interracial meeting in Akron, OH mid-Feb 1930 at the home Russell & Mrs Brooker home at 34 Castle Blvd. 1929-1930 some time there was a Race Amity conference in Philadelphia at which Gregory and Albert Vail spoke three times. Greogry talked at the Portsmouth YWCA for the Baha'is after his return trip from the "Mid-West'. Gregory spoke at Race Amity meetings at Harriette Schwartz home at 787 Franklin Ave and at the (Mormon?) Manhattan Temple amidst a series of speakers and other hosts of events. Gregory spoke to the Social Problems Club meeting on Sunday at 605 Daniel St. Urbana, IL. Gregory spoke the evening of May 9 in Detroit at the Federation of Women's Clubs meeting at Second Blvd and Hancock Ave presenting the Faith. Teaneck meeting gathers 500 and Gregory among speakers. Gregory co-presented with Mary White Ovington at the Brooklyn Baha'i Center Nov 2, 1930. Nov 2,Chicago Amity conference - speakers Ludmila Bechtold, Mary White Ovington (NAACP), Louis Gregory - Nov 8 NY Urban League with Doris of Geneva, JM Ragland (Urban League of Cincinnati), Rev Paul Baker (Fed Council of Church of Christ) and Jessie Harris - Nov 9 at NY Center - Eugene Kinkle Jones (Sec Nat Urban League), Hanford Ford, James Hubert (Sec NY Urban League), Lorenza Jordan Cole performed Nov 8, 9, 10 Gregory aided a set of meetings co-sponsored by the Urban League, the NAACP and the National Teaching Committee in the face of the Great Depressions hampering the organizations and being asked to cooperate and covered at length in the Chicago Defender and followup events. Gregory gave a series of lectures starting at the home of Mrs. W. F. Handschin, 1101 South Orchard St, Urbana on "The Bahai (sic) Religion". Mrs. H. A. Harding hosted the second meeting at her home at 704 West Nevada St on "Religion and Business" and again the next night on "The World's Greatest Need - a Prophet". He also addressed several university classes and the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity.Gregory spoke at the 'Monster Meeting' Dec 7 in Indianapolis, IN,. Brooklyn again end of December 1930.
1932
interracial banquet in New York on 27 February 1932. About 150 people attended the banquet, which was organized by the national amity committee to honor the N.A.A.C.P. and the Urban League. Gregory talk at Baha'i Center at Teaneck Brooklyn Center. Gregory was a guest speaker at a Portsmouth church Apr 1. Gregory spoke for the Baha'is in room 202 in Lincoln Hall, University of Illinois. regory was among the speakers hosted by the Baha'is of Milwaukee at the hotel and at the Baha’i Center at 1601 Washington Ave for May 23. an amity conference on 9-10 December 1932, held in cooperation with the Urban League and with Alain Locke, Samuel A. Allen, James H. Hubert, Dr. Genevieve Coy of Columbia University, and Louis Gregory as speakers
1934
January Gregory made plans of spending two months in Atlanta and one month in Nashville and this began to be called pioneering and “intensive teaching. February 22, 1934 Gregory spoke at Spelman College on the equality of women and men, and a summary was published in the Spelman Messenger. Gregory spoke on "Light on the New World Order" in Lincoln Hall, rm 202, on May 20, at the University of Illinois at Urbana. Gregory talk at Alvin & Mrs Palmatier home on (357) Deforest St., Binghamton.
1936
Gregory a speaker in Cincinnati;Gregory talks inc Wilberforce campus & Hotel Alma en route to Cincinnati late February. Gregory had given a talk the previous Sunday for the Baha'is of Cincinnati . Gregory guest of 'Nayan' Hartfield in South Bend, IN, two weeks of talks at Center, Pilgrim Baptist on Birdsell St., then off to Piney Woods, Mississippi. Gregory was reported in Memphis, Tennessee, for a week of activities earlier April, recalling an earlier presence. His was a guest of George W. Henderson of the business college.Gregory spoke twice at the University of Illinois at Urbana Student Center on "The Divine Art of Living" after mid-April. and then addressed the Alpha Kappa Delta sociology society at a dinner at the Woman's Building giving a talk "A Sociological Pioneer and the New South”. Gregory then spoke on "The New Psychology of Race" before the Baha's study group in the Student Center.Gregory talk at Brooklyn Center:. Gregory talk at Boston Baha'i Center, 218 Huntington Ave,
1940
talk at home of Robert L. & Mrs. Davis at 4321 Fourth St, Detroit. joining conference at Temple gives talk in Windsor and Detroit. Gregory talks in Teaneck. The NY Baha'i Center at 119 W 57th St . Baha'i Center of Beverley, MA.. spring of 1940, for example, he traveled west through New York state and on his return east made numerous stops; he spoke at a race unity dinner and gave a radio talk in Peoria, was featured in two lectures and a radio talk on May 11th, at ‘The Seventy-Five Years of Progress Exposition arranged by the colored citizens of Detroit, and visited Lima, Ohio, Dorothy Baker’s home community. In 1940 Gregory visited with two white Bahá’ís, Olga Finke and Doris Ebbert, in Atlanta renting space for a school but were abuptly told to vacate after Gregory spoke there. at Milwaukee Baha'i Center at 744 N. 4th St. Baltimore Hotel. Atlanta. Georgia and the Carolinas.
1942
Gregory talks the YWCA buildings in Detroit and Flint. Gregory was a guest of Mrs. L. D. Thompson at Idlewild and had been on radio WMBC for the Interracial Goodwill Hour. He then spoke at the Tabernacle AME Church. Gregory gives a series of talk in Ludington MI at the homes of Clarence Wilder, Everett Dumas, and an elementary school and Pentwater High School.Gregory was among the presenters at the Urbana-Champagin Race Amity conference on March 1 at the Champaign City building Council room. touring six states and lecturing in twenty-seven schools. That winter and the next Louis Gregory traveled through Ohio, Michigan, Tennessee, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina. he spoke di rectly on the Faith in black colleges and in white schools presented by the Miami Baha'is. In 1942-43 he made his way through New York, Michigan, Ohio, and six Southern states. Gregory co-presents at Brooklyn Center. Gregory talk at Center at 4 Congdon Pl, Binghamton. Louis Gregory’s circuit in March and April 1942 took him through West Virginia, Virginia, and the Carolinas; he also visited Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, and Washington, D.C."
1944
Hotel Latchis Annex on Flat St in Brattleboro, VT. 1944 and early 1945 Mr. Gregory… visiting Missouri, Oklahoma, West Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York state. (Contribute here)
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First International Tour - 1911 - New York, Ramleh, Haifa, Stuttgart, Paris & London
Gregory had been a guest of the Hotel Maceo in New York at 213 W 53rd St seems to be an office building that might date back to the period. The ship carrying Gregory landed at Ramleh, Egypt, on the African continent. During the pilgrimage, Gregory and 'Abdu’l-Bahá traveled to Haifa where Gregory went to the Shrines, and met members of the Holy Family including young Shoghi Effendi. Louisa Matthew was also on pilgrimage from England at the time. Gregory returned via Stuttgart, Paris, and London. In London he visited Baha’is there for four days, crossing paths with Marion Jack. (Contribute here)
US TOUR WITH 'ABDU'L-BAHA - 1912 - Hartford, Washington DC, Chicago, ManassaS, New York, Atlantic City & Unkown in Maryland
Gregory in Connecticut was mentioned in Hartford. Initial coverage has not been found.
April 23 Gregory was noticed in association with Abdu’l-Baha in DC and “was instrumental” in invitations to speak at Howard University, this was followed by a diplomatic luncheon at the Persian Legation at which Gregory was seated at ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s right side. The evening of April 24 Abdu’l-Baha attended the regular Wednesday evening integrated meeting at the Dyer’s home.
Gregory was mentioned, known as an advocate for the religion and recent pilgrim, in The Advocate of West Virginia - the article covers Abdu’l-Baha's talk at Metropolitan AME Church for the BLHA. Gregory was a Baha'i Election delegate from the DC community in Chicago, and gave two talks at the national convention. On April 30 was elected to the Executive Board of the Bahá’í Temple Unity for the first time, a precursor of the National Spiritual Assembly, breaking a tie vote. In July 1912 Gregory was visiting Leslie Pinckney Hill who was teaching at the Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth in Virginia and Gregory spoke before Hill's class twice. The Gregory-Matthews marriage arranged for Sep 27 and held in New York City at an Episcopal Church with a ceremony of the Anglican Church "at the residence of Rev. Everard W. Daniel, just nine persons were present, including the minister and his wife, the bride and groom.” and they were allowed to utter the Baha’i marriage vows. Among those present were Howard MacNutt, Mr. Braithwaite, Mrs. Botay, Mrs. Nourse, representatives of New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC, and Atlantic City communities. They went to Atlantic City for their honeymoon and were able to join with Mrs. Nourse in community activities there, and spent the summer in Maryland. On Nov 6-10 Abdu’l-Baha returned to and spoke in DC for several talks to which Gregory attended. (Contribute here)
Second Southern Tour - 1915 - Nashville & Atlanta
Gregory undertook a trip promoting the religion in fall of 1915, including Nashville (meeting George W. Henderson) and spending a week in Atlanta (where he met up with Fred Mortensen, who had contact with blacks Bishop Flipper and Dr. Ponton, and the white James Elmore Hays.)[1]:p83 In Atlanta he spoke at Atlanta University, Morehouse College, Morris Brown University, Clark University, Gammon Theological Seminary, Spelman College, and the First Congregational Church accompanied by Hays. (Contribute here)
Third Southern Tour - 1916 - Columbia, Atlanta, Tallahassee, Jacksonville, TULSA, NASHVILLE, and 7 To Be Determined States
Gregory was in Columbia SC, in late October, with a talk entitled "Bahai (sic) Spirit and Universal Peace" and during the trip he had been in Atlanta, GA, before making it back to DC. He was in Tallahassee, Florida by October 31, speaking to audiences of thousands and going on to including at Florida A. & M. College, and then was in Jacksonville where he gave six addresses in schools, churches, and the Y.M.C.A. He spent six more weeks or so traveling in the South. By late November Gregory was in Tulsa, Oklahoma, including a Methodist Church with room to hold 500 people. He reached perhaps fifteen thousand people among the three months, mostly students. During this tour Gregory visited his alma mater Fisk University in December 1916. A brief blurb reported of Gregory on this second visit at Tuskegee and the tour of 14 states in The Washington Bee, at the invitation of Booker T. Washington.
It is known Gregory typed a letter to President Wilson in Jan stating "Within the past three months, as an advocate of universal peace, I have visited the fourteen Southern States,…" and advising of the troubled nature of relations across the South. (Contribute Here)
FIFTH SOTHERN TOUR - 1919 - Norfolk, WILMINGTON, UnKNOWN in SC, Lexington, KY, Louisville KY, Helena, Arkansas, DC (visited 13 states he records 6 unknown one is NY) , then he continued... Asheville, NC, Chattanooga TN, Helena Arkansas again, Boley, OK,
1922
Spoke in Spokane, Washington, several times. First with the Spokane Baha'i Assembly at the Calvary Baptist Church and the Rookery Building and a third talk, followed another at the Spokane Hotel (Contribute here)
1929
Gregory was among the speakers at the St James Presbyterian Forum meeting talking on "The Negro in Race Relations” in New York. Gregory spoke at the Nazarene Cong Church . Early 1929 Detroit, Dayton, Columbus, Buffalo, and (in March) Rochester held Race Amity conferences and the Richestor events was considered the most successful event the community had ever held. March 3 there was an event at the home of Watt & Mrs. Terry that had inc Louis Gregory, Alain Locke, Mae Hawes, Harry Burleigh, Mrs S. (May) Maxwell at 290 Convent Ave.. Gregory spoke at the Rochester Race Amity conference of Mar 1929. March 14 in Detroit for a Race Amity Meeting. Gregory initiated another tour after the convention going to Milwaukee, Kansas City, Memphis, Nashville, and Louisville.[9]:p186 In later May he prepared and served a Persian meal at the Chapman home in Kansas City.. Gregory was back in Memphis supporting George Henderson’s community work and development of a college. Gregory was among the speakers at the speakers at the Teaneck NJ meeting for Sep 6. Gregory read Baha’i prayers at the funeral and came to understand George had been distributing Baha’i literature and trying to arrange meetings in Charleston and the funeral garnered a thousand multiracial attendees. Gregory was one of the speakers at the Brooklyn Baha’i Center . Gregory was noted as a guest of A. G. & Mrs Bechtold in Flatbush.
1931
Across 1930-31 … "A trip through the South included two weeks in the Washington, D.C.-Baltimore area and a return to Charleston. He lectured twice at a white college in Bricks, North Carolina, and gave an address on comparative religion at a college in Lynchburg, Virginia. In the North he traveled widely in Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio, New York, and New England. At a state normal school in Wisconsin he spoke directly on the Baha'i teachings to two hundred students. He was also invited to return to the University of Illinois to talk on race relations in the sociology department. Gregory talk at Center again at 19 W. Chase St in Baltimore. (operated as a Baha'i Center into 1932 dating back to early 1920s. Gregory spoke at YWCA at New Castle. Gregory was among the speakers at the Race Amity Convention held at the Center Ave YMCA in Pittsburgh. The Baha'i Interracial Committee and the New York Urban League held a meetings on Scientific and Spiritual Proofs including talks by Louilie Matthew and Louis Gregory first at the Urban League building Oct 31 and the second at the Baha'i Center at 119 W. 57th St Nov 1. December 1931 Louis Gregory and Willard McKay, … joined forces in Atlanta, where they established a Baha'i study class. Then they proceeded to tour the states of Alabama, Tennessee, and Ohio.… On their journey they concentrated mainly upon colleges and universities. At Tuskegee Institute they spoke seven times in three days. Their largest audience was a gathering of eighteen hundred at the regular Sunday evening meeting. Robert R. Moton, Booker T. Washington’s successor as head of Tuskegee, reportedly stated that 'he wanted his students to hear this message.' Both George Washington Carver and Booker Washington’s son indicated to the visitors that they held the Baha'i teachings in great esteem. At Fisk University five meetings were held; addresses were also given at the State Normal School and at a Nashville high school. After a stop in Louisville Mr. McKay and Mr. Gregory went on to Cincinnati. A public meeting was arranged by the Baha'is there, and a sociology professor at the University of Cincinnati opened his classes to the travelers.
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1933
Louis Gregory and Australian Baha'i, Charles A. Wragg toured the South in early 1933, especially in Virginia.Gregory was among those gathered at a dinner hosted by Capt R. E. & Mrs Plato at 2326 Seventh Ave. Gregory was noted as spending several weeks in Harlem as a guest of Mrs. Annie K. Lewis, of 259 West 137th St. By November the Gregory-Wragg trip with the color organ was over.
1935
Denver. He did a lecture tour in Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana, "once to a class on race relations at the University of Toledo; in Lima to two black churches and a regularly scheduled weekly amity meeting sponsored by the Bahá’ís…; in Columbus and Cincinnati to four or five audiences each; in Dayton to groups at Wilberforce University five or six times and to the congregation of a Unitarian church; and in Cleveland to as many as five schools and clubs in one day. Gregory in week long series held at 222 North Scott St, South Bend, Indiana, the home of Nayan Hartfield. Gregory talk at Teaneck Baha'i Center. Gregory talk at Brooklyn Center. During the winter of 1935-36 he spent three months in New York and traveled extensively in Ohio and Indiana, participating in many amity activities although he was no longer a member of the national committee” including 36 talks in 30 days and part of a circuit of traveling speakers.
1937-1939
They sailed from New York on 14 January 1937, bearing letters of introduction to some influential Haitians, and were soon settled in Petion Ville, a suburb of Port au Prince. Gregorys were in Port AU Prince. Apr 20, 1937, the Gregories left Kingston Jamaica. New York Port on the 26th April. living at 421 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. funeral service for Alfred E. Lunt mid-August 1937 in Beverly, MA. Gregory traveled to Atlanta and twenty-six other places across seven months and then four months in Tuskegee. He arrived in Tuskegee Dec 1, 1937. Gregory spoke at the Tuskegee Institute study body in the chapel Dec 10. Gregory gave three talks at the Baha'i Center at 530 E. Green St, Champaign. Gregory was the dinner guest and speaker at a reception by Lester Brown and Mr Pulley. Summer of 1938 the Gregorys summered in Green Acre and wintered in Cambridge. January 1939 he was sent to Pine Bluff Arkansas where he joined Lydia Martin (of the Cleveland Martins) to give presentations which was extended into a month starting with programs at the State Teacher’s College and extending into Churches, YM/YWCAs, schools and school conferences, PTAs, college classes.Gregory was among the presenters at the San Francisco World's Fair . October 1939 a National Assembly meeting in San Francisco enabled him to speak in the Bay Area; Southern California; Denver; Kansas City; Evansville, Indiana; West Virginia; and Philadelphia. He also visited Wilmington, Delaware.
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1941
Lima Baha’i Center in January but took place in February in the Hotel Argonne's Crystal Room 1941 . Gregory speaker at Brotherhood Week of Abraham Lincoln Birthday "Man's Finding a Lost Treasure” in Kenosha. Gregory talk at Melvin & Mrs Nein home at 808 Huffman Ave. Gregory talk at Odd Fellows Hall in Urbana, IL in early March followed by a black child Cub Scout troup. Gregory spoke at Baha'i regional conference hosted at YMCA in Dayton. Baha'i Race Unity Committee members speak; L. W. Schurgast, Dorothy Baker, Louis Gregory and Gregory co-presented with Dorothy Baker at Liberal Savings Building at 24 E. Sixth St. His talk was "The Racial Basis of the New Civilization”. Today it is a set of apartments - The Lofts at Graydon. Cincinnati Baha'i Assembly hosts Race unity program with talk by Dorothy Beecher Baker and Louis Gregory. Again Gregory and Doroth Baker gave talks at the Liberal Savings Bldg in Cincinnati. Gregory spoke at the Kalantar home at 3100 Monroe St . April Gregory assisted in the election of Memphis. Gregory visits Kenosha Baha'i Center at 5912 Twenty-Second Ave . Racine Baha’i Center. Lima Baha'i Center . at the DAR Chapter House at 824 N. Pennsylvania St. and at the Portsmouth Baha'i Center at 2108 Kinzie Ave.
1943
Melvin & Mrs Nein home, will visit Wilberforce University and the Cincinnati regional conference. Gregory gave a talk in DC in early February. March 1943 Gregory was in New Orleans. "Louis Gregory in Flint, Michigan; Kenosha and Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Cleveland, Ohio,” Mid-September Gregory was part of the Milwaukee program on race unity along with Dorothy Baker. A week later he also spoke at the Kenosha Baha'i Center with John Haggard on race unity. Then at the end of September Gregory gave a talk at the YMCA in Flint Michigan amidst a series of meetings hosted at various homes: Eugene Peters, 4051 Grant St, Ralph Garner, 406 1/2 E. Court St., or Cynthia Rather at 601 E. Ninth St. 4051 Grant St take over by business parking lot, 406 1/2 E. Court St. might too, 601 E. Ninth St. part of highway system now. In early October, Gregory made an appearance in Ypsilanti. (Contribute here)