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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... humanity . 1 Mays was active in organizations and movements that embodied change in the South from the turn of the century until his death in 1984. He was coauthor of the influential ... Human Welfare , the American Crusade to ix FOREWORD.
... humanity . 1 Mays was active in organizations and movements that embodied change in the South from the turn of the century until his death in 1984. He was coauthor of the influential ... Human Welfare , the American Crusade to ix FOREWORD.
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An Autobiography Benjamin Elijah Mays. Southern Conference for Human Welfare , the American Crusade to End Lynching , the Southern Conference Educational Fund , Civil Rights Congresses , and the Peace Corps Advisory Committee . In his ...
An Autobiography Benjamin Elijah Mays. Southern Conference for Human Welfare , the American Crusade to End Lynching , the Southern Conference Educational Fund , Civil Rights Congresses , and the Peace Corps Advisory Committee . In his ...
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... human beings . " Moreover , he defiantly challenged southern politicians who claimed to oppose a federal antilynching law on the grounds that it interfered with states ' rights : " If the South is earnest , is honest , if the Dixiecrats ...
... human beings . " Moreover , he defiantly challenged southern politicians who claimed to oppose a federal antilynching law on the grounds that it interfered with states ' rights : " If the South is earnest , is honest , if the Dixiecrats ...
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... Human Welfare in 1947—48 , and , of course , his leadership in the NAACP . Mays , who perceived com- munism as anti - Christian , was outraged to be labeled a communist . Although Mays denied the allegations , Kennedy withdrew the ...
... Human Welfare in 1947—48 , and , of course , his leadership in the NAACP . Mays , who perceived com- munism as anti - Christian , was outraged to be labeled a communist . Although Mays denied the allegations , Kennedy withdrew the ...
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... human life is not blind . mechanistic force , not blind chance , not natural laws ; the source of human life is God . " In his younger years , Mays , greatly inspired by the faith of his father and the piety of his mother , plowed a row ...
... human life is not blind . mechanistic force , not blind chance , not natural laws ; the source of human life is God . " In his younger years , Mays , greatly inspired by the faith of his father and the piety of his mother , plowed a row ...
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,