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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... acceptance of the Dixiecrat presidential nomination, "There are not enough laws on the books of the nation, nor can there be enough laws, to break down segregation in the South." When South Carolina gave her native son 72 percent of the ...
... acceptance of the Dixiecrat presidential nomination, "There are not enough laws on the books of the nation, nor can there be enough laws, to break down segregation in the South." When South Carolina gave her native son 72 percent of the ...
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... accepted him. Mays 'was determined to go even though his friends, especially the Yankee Pullman porters, warned that he would freeze in Maine. While working his way through college, Mays, an honor student, won the sophomore declamation ...
... accepted him. Mays 'was determined to go even though his friends, especially the Yankee Pullman porters, warned that he would freeze in Maine. While working his way through college, Mays, an honor student, won the sophomore declamation ...
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... accepted nothing less than a student's best effort, whether the student was an athlete or a member of the debating team (which he coached), light- or dark-skinned, from a deprived background, as he had been, or from the bourgeoisie ...
... accepted nothing less than a student's best effort, whether the student was an athlete or a member of the debating team (which he coached), light- or dark-skinned, from a deprived background, as he had been, or from the bourgeoisie ...
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... acceptance of a law which one did not have to accept." Mays kept this distinction clear in his life and encouraged his students to do so. As he wrote later in Seeking to Be Christian in Race Relations: "Segregation crushes manhood ...
... acceptance of a law which one did not have to accept." Mays kept this distinction clear in his life and encouraged his students to do so. As he wrote later in Seeking to Be Christian in Race Relations: "Segregation crushes manhood ...
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... accepted the presidency of Morehouse, he declared, "If Morehouse is not good enough for anybody, it's not good enough for Negroes." By the time of his retirement, Morehouse was an excellent college by any standard.31 Mays never lost ...
... accepted the presidency of Morehouse, he declared, "If Morehouse is not good enough for anybody, it's not good enough for Negroes." By the time of his retirement, Morehouse was an excellent college by any standard.31 Mays never lost ...
Contenido
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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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