Education
Born in Waxahachie, Texas, Kirksey moved to the San Francisco Bay Area when he was about thirteen years old and graduated from Palo Alto High School in 1913.
Born in Waxahachie, Texas, Kirksey moved to the San Francisco Bay Area when he was about thirteen years old and graduated from Palo Alto High School in 1913.
At the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Kirksey finished second in the 100-meter sprint behind Charlie Paddock. Kirksey earned a bachelor"s degree in philosophy from Stanford and then a degree from Saint Louis Medical College. He worked as a staff psychiatrist for the state Department of Corrections, assigned to San Quentin and Folsom prisons.
Morris Kirksey died in San Mateo, California, at the age of 86.