TY - GEN N2 - In this first full-length biography of Benjamin Mays (1894-1984), Randal Maurice Jelks 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. Jelks argues that Mays's ability to connect the message of Christianity with the responsibility to challenge injustice prepared the black church.... AB - In this first full-length biography of Benjamin Mays (1894-1984), Randal Maurice Jelks 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. Jelks argues that Mays's ability to connect the message of Christianity with the responsibility to challenge injustice prepared the black church.... T1 - Benjamin Elijah Mays, schoolmaster of the movementa biography / DA - 2012. CY - Chapel Hill : AU - Jelks, Randal Maurice, CN - ProQuest Ebook Central CN - LC2851.M72 PB - University of North Carolina Press, PP - Chapel Hill : PY - 2012. ID - 437940 KW - African American educators KW - African Americans KW - Christian education KW - Race relations KW - Sociology, Biblical. SN - 9780807869871 TI - Benjamin Elijah Mays, schoolmaster of the movementa biography / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=877300 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=877300 ER -