Born to Rebel: An AutobiographyUniversity of Georgia Press, 2003 M04 1 - 380 páginas Born the son of a sharecropper in 1894 near Ninety Six, South Carolina, Benjamin E. Mays went on to serve as president of Morehouse College for twenty-seven years and as the first president of the Atlanta School Board. His earliest memory, of a lynching party storming through his county, taunting but not killing his father, became for Mays an enduring image of black-white relations in the South. Born to Rebel is the moving chronicle of his life, a story that interlaces achievement with the rebuke he continually confronted. |
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Página ix
... African Americans — especially the precious right to vote — had been seri- ously curtailed , although two African Americans sat in the General Assembly and one represented the state in Congress . Some thirty years after the Civil War ...
... African Americans — especially the precious right to vote — had been seri- ously curtailed , although two African Americans sat in the General Assembly and one represented the state in Congress . Some thirty years after the Civil War ...
Página x
... Black clergymen who have exerted a tremendous impact upon American life . " 2 The distinguished career of Benjamin Elijah Mays evolved from the black south- ern experience that he shared with so many African American youths who grew up ...
... Black clergymen who have exerted a tremendous impact upon American life . " 2 The distinguished career of Benjamin Elijah Mays evolved from the black south- ern experience that he shared with so many African American youths who grew up ...
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... Africa movement caught the attention of many African Americans . Mays , however , shied away from Garvey's overt black nationalism and became more com- mitted to Christianity and to expanding American democracy to include African Americans ...
... Africa movement caught the attention of many African Americans . Mays , however , shied away from Garvey's overt black nationalism and became more com- mitted to Christianity and to expanding American democracy to include African Americans ...
Página xii
... African Americans protested their lack of civil rights in the American South , Mays was consulted as a longtime leader in the fight against seg- regation . By 1977 he was an adviser and confidant to President James Earl Carter , a ...
... African Americans protested their lack of civil rights in the American South , Mays was consulted as a longtime leader in the fight against seg- regation . By 1977 he was an adviser and confidant to President James Earl Carter , a ...
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... African Americans who were " bold enough , wise enough and selfless enough ... American history : the nadir of race relations from the 1890s through the ... African Americans . Segregation and deteriorated race relations remained the ...
... African Americans who were " bold enough , wise enough and selfless enough ... American history : the nadir of race relations from the 1890s through the ... African Americans . Segregation and deteriorated race relations remained the ...
Contenido
In the Days of My Youth | 1 |
Be Careful and Stay Out of Trouble | 22 |
Frustrations Doubts Dreams | 35 |
Finding Out for Myself | 50 |
Atlanta 19211924 | 66 |
Morehouse and Shiloh | 89 |
Chicago to Orangeburg to Tampa | 99 |
The Tampa Story | 106 |
Morehouse School of Religion and the Interdenomination Center | 234 |
The Church and Race | 241 |
Martin Luther King Jr | 265 |
I Can Sing Atlanta The Trail Blazers | 275 |
I Can Sing Atlanta The Young Warriors | 287 |
Retrospect and Prospect | 300 |
APPENDICES | 323 |
The Church Amidst Ethnic and Racial Tensions | 349 |
Two More Detours | 125 |
In the Nations Capital | 139 |
Race and Caste Outside the USA | 149 |
Learning the Problem in Depth | 162 |
So Much with So Little and So Few | 170 |
Other Involvements | 196 |
Southern Negro Leaders Challenged the White South | 213 |
Politicians and President Kennedy | 221 |
Eulogy at the Funeral Services of Martin Luther King Jr at Morehouse College Atlanta Georgia April 9 1968 | 357 |
Interracial Hypertension | 361 |
Statement of Conference of White Southerners on Race Relations | 363 |
The Richmond Statement | 366 |
Excerpts from Correspondence Regarding Merger of Seminary Work of Gammon Morris Brown and Morehouse | 368 |
Degrees | 370 |
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Página lxvi - He has showed you, 0 man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Página x - The action of President Roosevelt in entertaining that nigger will necessitate our killing a thousand niggers in the South before they will learn their place again.” In 1909, when the NAACP was founded, Ben Mays was fifteen years old and,