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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.
Benjamin E Mays
Benjamin E. Mays, born the son of a sharecropper in 1894, was educated at Bates College and the University of Chicago. He was a dean at Howard University, president of Morehouse College for twenty-seven years, and the first president of the Atlanta School Board. His other books include The Negro's Church and Disturbed about Man. He died in 1984.
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