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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....
AU  - Jelks, Randal Maurice,
CN  - ProQuest Ebook Central
CN  - LC2851.M72
CY  - Chapel Hill :
DA  - 2012.
ID  - 437940
KW  - African American educators
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Christian education
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Sociology, Biblical.
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=877300
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....
PB  - University of North Carolina Press,
PP  - Chapel Hill :
PY  - 2012.
SN  - 9780807869871
T1  - Benjamin Elijah Mays, schoolmaster of the movementa biography /
TI  - Benjamin Elijah Mays, schoolmaster of the movementa biography /
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=877300
ER  -