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Author Jelks, Randal Maurice, 1956- author.

Title Benjamin Elijah Mays, schoolmaster of the movement : a biography / Randal Maurice Jelks
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 326 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction : I have been a Baptist all my life -- My earliest memory was a mob -- I set out to learn how the sixty-six books of the Bible were produced -- In search of a call -- The Negro's God -- The most neglected area in Negro education -- Schoolmaster of the movement -- Seeking to be Christian in race relations -- I have only just a minute -- This is not a short war, this is a long war -- Epilogue : Lord, the people have driven me on
Summary This full-length biography of Benjamin Mays (1894-1984) chronicles the life of the man Martin Luther King Jr. called his 'spiritual and intellectual father'. Dean of the Howard University School of Religion, president of Morehouse College, and mentor to influential black leaders, Mays had a profound impact on the education of the leadership of the black church and of a generation of activists, policymakers, and educators
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
ALA Black Caucus Award, 2013 (Nonfiction)
Subject Mays, Benjamin E. (Benjamin Elijah), 1894-1984.
SUBJECT Mays, Benjamin E. (Benjamin Elijah), 1894-1984
Mays, Benjamin E. (Benjamin Elijah), 1894-1984 fast
Subject Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.) -- Presidents -- Biography
SUBJECT Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.) fast
Subject African American educators -- Biography
African Americans -- Civil rights.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Educators.
EDUCATION -- Higher.
African American educators
African Americans -- Civil rights
Presidents
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469601748
1469601745
9780807869871
0807869872