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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... gave a speech titled " The Moral Aspects of Segregation " : " No group is wise enough , good enough , strong enough to assume an omnipotent and omniscient role .... To do that is blasphemy . It is a usurpation of the role of God .... We ...
... gave a speech titled " The Moral Aspects of Segregation " : " No group is wise enough , good enough , strong enough to assume an omnipotent and omniscient role .... To do that is blasphemy . It is a usurpation of the role of God .... We ...
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... gave the right to vote to every male resident of South Carolina twenty - one years of age or older " without distinction of race , color , or former condition . " 13 If Reconstruction could have succeeded anywhere , it was in South ...
... gave the right to vote to every male resident of South Carolina twenty - one years of age or older " without distinction of race , color , or former condition . " 13 If Reconstruction could have succeeded anywhere , it was in South ...
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... the moderate Hamptonite aristocratic historian Edward McCrady , Jr. By requiring that those who applied for voter registration take a literacy test , which included large loopholes for white Democrats , the law gave xvi FOREWORD.
... the moderate Hamptonite aristocratic historian Edward McCrady , Jr. By requiring that those who applied for voter registration take a literacy test , which included large loopholes for white Democrats , the law gave xvi FOREWORD.
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An Autobiography Benjamin Elijah Mays. included large loopholes for white Democrats , the law gave plentiful opportunities for administrative discrimination and provided an adequate " legal " substitute for intimidation and stuffed ...
An Autobiography Benjamin Elijah Mays. included large loopholes for white Democrats , the law gave plentiful opportunities for administrative discrimination and provided an adequate " legal " substitute for intimidation and stuffed ...
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... gave her native son 72 percent of the vote in the presidential election that year , Mays declared , " Today the South worships at the shrine of segregation " ; he warned that before democracy could be realized , southern whites had " to ...
... gave her native son 72 percent of the vote in the presidential election that year , Mays declared , " Today the South worships at the shrine of segregation " ; he warned that before democracy could be realized , southern whites had " to ...
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,