Born to Rebel: An AutobiographyUniversity of Georgia Press, 2011 M07 1 - 448 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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| ix | |
PREFACE | lv |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | lvii |
INTRODUCTION | lxi |
1 In the Days of My Youth | 1 |
2 Be Careful and Stay Out of Trouble | 22 |
3 Frustrations Doubts Dreams | 35 |
4 Finding Out for Myself | 50 |
12 Learning the Problem in Depth | 162 |
13 So Much with So Little and So Few | 170 |
14 Other Involvements | 196 |
15 Southern Negro Leaders Challenged the White South | 213 |
16 Politicians and President Kennedy | 221 |
17 Morehouse School of Religion and the Interdenomination Center | 234 |
18 The Church and Race | 241 |
19 Martin Luther King Jr | 265 |
5 Atlanta 19211924 | 66 |
6 Morehouse and Shiloh | 89 |
7 Chicago to Orangeburg to Tampa | 99 |
8 The Tampa Story | 106 |
9 Two More Detours | 125 |
10 In the Nations Capital | 139 |
11 Race and Caste Outside the USA | 149 |
The Trail Blazers | 275 |
The Young Warriors | 287 |
22 Retrospect and Prospect | 300 |
APPENDICES | 323 |
INDEX | 371 |
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