William Henry Grier (February 7, 1926 – September 3, 2015) was an American psychiatrist.
[1] 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..[2] He became a psychiatrist, and shortly thereafter, he was sent overseas as part of the Korean War and contracted polio which left him with a permanent limp.
[1] He first worked as a psychiatrist in Detroit before moving to San Francisco, where he met Price M. Cobbs.
[2] Black Rage was a groundbreaking work on race and became required reading in college classes.
He was the chairman of the department of psychiatry at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, in the 1970s.