Tennessee for several months, where he worked with inquirers from Fisk University. Some helped found that city's first local Spiritual Assembly. In response to Shoghi Effendi's call for the goals of the Tablets of the Divine Plan, the United States community arranged a program of action. Gregory and his wife Louisa traveled to and lived in Haiti in 1934 promoting the religion. The Haitian government asked them to leave in a matter of months; Catholicism was the dominant established religion. In 1940 the Atlanta Baháʼí community struggled over integrated meetings. Gregory was among those tasked with resolving the situation in favor of integrated meetings. In early 1942 Gregory spoke at several black schools and colleges in West Virginia, Virginia, and the Carolinas. He also served on the first "assembly development" committee, focused on supporting materials to expand the religion in Central and South America. In 1944 Gregory was on the planning committee for the "All-America Convention", which was attracting attendees from all Baháʼí national communities, both north and south. He wrote the convention report for the Baháʼí News national journal. He traveled from the winter of 1944 through 1945 among five southern states. Newspapers covered the Race Amity conventions organized by Baháʼís from the 1920s through the 1950s, against a backdrop of persistent racial issues and violence in the US. Later years In December 1948 Gregory suffered a stroke while returning from a funeral for a friend. His wife's health was also declining and the couple began to stay closer to home. They lived at Green Acre Baháʼí School in Eliot, Maine. Gregory carried on correspondence with U.S. District Court Judge Julius Waties Waring and his wife in 1950-1; Waring was involved in Briggs v. Elliott. Gregory died aged seventy-seven on July 30, 1951. He is buried at a cemetery near the Green Acre Baháʼí school. His wife Louisa sought comfort with the Noisette family in New York after his passing. Legacy and honors On his death, Shoghi Effendi, then head of the religion, cabled to the American Baháʼí community: Profoundly deplore grievous loss of dearly beloved, noble-minded, golden-hearted Louis Gregory, pride and example to the Negro adherents of the Faith. Keenly feel loss of one so loved, admired and trusted by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá. Deserves rank of first Hand of the Cause of his race. Rising Baháʼí generation in African continent will glory in his memory and emulate his example. Advise