Kevin Alexander Gray (July 1, 1957 – March 7, 2023) was an American political activist and author, based in South Carolina.
[1] Spending his early years in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Gray and his younger sister Valerie were among the first blacks to attend the local all-white Fairforest Elementary School in 1969.
[2] Gray was a graduate of Wofford College and worked on his doctoral degree in political science at American University.
Gray served as a national board member of the American Civil Liberties Union for four years and was past nine term president of the South Carolina affiliate of the ACLU.
Gray organized the Harriet Tubman Freedom House Project which focused on community based political and cultural education.
In 2020 Gray opened Railroad BBQ on Hampton Street in Columbia, a restaurant and repository for the hundreds of civil and human rights ephemera he collected over the years.