The Joe Gray Taylor Papers

Joe Gray Taylor Papers

1971-1990
15.51 linear feet

Collection Number 236

Prepared by Patricia A. Threatt
December 2007

CITATION: The Joe Gray Taylor Papers, Collection No. 236, Box number, Folder number,
Archives and Special Collections Department, Frazar Memorial Library, McNeese State University.

Archives and Special Collections Department
Frazar Memorial Library
McNeese State University

Biographical Sketch

Joe Gray Taylor was born near Mason, Tennessee on February 14, 1920. He married Helen Eva Friday and they raised three children, Joe Gray, Jr.; Harriette Eva; and Edward Coleman. Taylor served in the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II, flying 70 bombing missions in the China-Burma-India theater.

Taylor received his bachelors degree from Memphis State College in 1947 and his masters and doctorate degrees from Louisiana State University in 1948 and 1951. He taught History at several Louisiana colleges until arriving at McNeese in 1963. Soon after he became Head of the Department of History in 1968 and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts in 1983. Taylor published numerous articles and book reviews. He is the author of seven books, including Negro Slavery in Louisiana (1950), Louisiana Reconstructed, 1863-1877 (1974), Louisiana: A Bicentennial History (1976), and McNeese State University, 1939-1987: A Chronicle (1990). Taylor died December 8, 1987.

Scope and Content Note

The Papers consist of typescripts of Taylor's books with handwritten notes, correspondence, and working papers.

Container List

Box	Folder	Description
1		Introduction to the Civil War and Reconstruction
2		Bicentennial State and Local History; 1974-77 Correspondence
3		McNeese State University, 1939-1987: A Chronicle
4		50th Anniversary of MSU, including McNeese State University, 1939-1987: A Chronicle
4A		50th Anniversary of MSU, including McNeese State University, 1939-1987: A Chronicle
5		Louisiana Reconstructed, Part 1
6		Louisiana Reconstructed, Part 2
7		Negro Slavery in Louisiana
8		Correspondence, 1971-75
9		Correspondence, 1975-78
10		The White South from Secession to Redemption
11-12		Eating, Drinking, and Visiting in the South
13	1	Food, Drink, and Hospitality in the South
	2	The South Today
	3	Bi-Centennial Correspondence
	4	Diary of Noba (a Japanese soldier) and some Japanese currency
	5	Louisiana: A Student's Guide to Localized History booklet (2 copies)
	6	Vita and obituary
	7	Louisiana History Journal, Spring, 1973, Vol. 14, No. 2.

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