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. He first worked as a psychiatrist in Detroit before moving to
San Francisco, where he met
Price M. Cobbs. Together, they published the book
Black Rage in 1968.
Black Rage was a groundbreaking work on race and became required reading in college classes. In 1971, they co-wrote another book about black churches called
The Jesus Bag. He was the chairman of the department of psychiatry at
Meharry Medical College in
Nashville, Tennessee, in the 1970s. He then had a psychiatric practice in
San Diego until he retired in the 1990s. He is the father of
David Alan Grier. He died on September 3, 2015, in
Carlsbad, California. == References ==