Benjamin Elijah Mays, schoolmaster of the movement [electronic resource] : a biography / Randal Maurice Jelks.
2012
LC2851.M72 J45 2012eb
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Benjamin Elijah Mays, schoolmaster of the movement [electronic resource] : a biography / Randal Maurice Jelks.
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9780807869871 (electronic book)
9780807835364
9780807835364
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Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
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English
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1 online resource (xv, 326 p.) : ill.
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LC2851.M72 J45 2012eb
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378.0092 B
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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....
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Table of 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.
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.