Newspaper Clipping: J. W. Gregory, February 26, 2014 · Greer Heritage Museum collection

Title: Newspaper Clipping: J. W. Gregory, February 26, 2014
Accession Number: 2026.38.1.23
Accession Date: 16 June 2026
Accession Creator: Meadow Knapp
Description: The Greer Citizen newspaper clipping of an interview with J. W. Gregory
Contributor: Amanda Irwin
Date: February 26, 2014
Storage Location: Box 33, Folder #2
Text: GREGORY: Still a need for more jobs

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Community, but rather a constantly growing one.
"Now Greer's big and I think that we had the right kind of leaders and it re-ally boomed, but the best is yet to be seen," he said.
Gregory's concerns for the future change aren't race-related either.
"I think that there's a need for more jobs, I think that there's a need for a better education system,

"Now Greer's big and I think that we had the right kind of leaders and it really boomed, but the best is yet to be seen."

J.W. Gregory

more community involve-ment," he said.
Martin Luther King Jr. and President Barack Obama are two prominent black figures Gregory said he holds in high regard.
"To me, it means that I can work because of Mar-tin Luther King. So we work. We don't take that day off," he said.
Relation: Newspaper Clipping: J. W. Gregory, February 26, 2014; J. W. "Doug" Gregory; J. W. "Doug" Gregory; Photograph: J. W. "Doug" Gregory; Newspaper Clipping: Gregory's Boutique, July 1975; Newspaper Clipping: Gregory's Boutique, July 1975; Newspaper Clipping: J. W. Gregory, July 5, 2000; Newspaper Clipping: J. W. Gregory, July 5, 2000; Gregory Family Photograph

Item sets: GHM: archive; GREER: African-American History; The Greer Citizen