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About William H. Grier
- William H.
- Grier (February 7, 1926 - September 3, 2015) was an American psychiatrist.
- He was born on February 7, 1926 in Birmingham, Alabama.He attended Howard University but left after a year to the University of Michigan where he received his bachelor of science degree (1945) and then his M.D.
- He became a psychiatrist.
- He was sent overseas as part of the Korean War and contracted polio which left him wit a permanent limp.
- He first worked as a psychiatrist in Detroit before moving to San Francisco, where he met Price M.
- Cobbs.
- Together, they published the book Black Rage in 1968.
- Black Rage was a groundbreaking work on race and became required reading in college classes.
- In 1971, they co-wrote another book about black churches called The Jesus Bag. He was the chairman of the department of psychiatry at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee in the 1970s.
- He then had a psychiatric practice in San Diego until he retired in the 1990s.
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