Born to rebel : an autobiography / Benjamin E. Mays ; with a revised foreword by Orville Vernon Burton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mays, Benjamin E. (Benjamin Elijah), 1894-1984.

Contributor:

Burton, Orville Vernon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights.

African Americans.

Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.)--Presidents.

Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.).

Mays, Benjamin E. (Benjamin Elijah), 1894-1984.

Mays, Benjamin E.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (465 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

""COVER""; ""CONTENTS""; ""FOREWORD""; ""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""1. In the Days of My Youth""; ""2. ""Be Careful and Stay Out of Trouble""""; ""3. Frustrations, Doubts, Dreams""; ""4. Finding Out for Myself""; ""5. Atlanta, 1921-1924""; ""6. Morehouse and Shiloh""; ""7. Chicago to Orangeburg to Tampa""; ""8. The Tampa Story""; ""9. Two More Detours""; ""10. In the Nation's Capital""; ""11. Race and Caste Outside the U.S.A.""; ""12. Learning the Problem in Depth""; ""13. So Much with So Little and So Few""; ""14. Other Involvements""

""15. Southern Negro Leaders Challenged the White South""""16. Politicians and President Kennedy""; ""17. Morehouse School of Religion and the Interdenomination Center""; ""18. The Church and Race""; ""19. Martin Luther King, Jr.""; ""20. I Can Sing Atlanta: The Trail Blazers""; ""21. I Can Sing Atlanta: The Young Warriors""; ""22. Retrospect and Prospect""; ""APPENDICES""; ""A. The World in Which I Was Born and Reared""; ""B. The Church Amidst Ethnic and Racial Tensions""; ""C. Eulogy at the Funeral Services of Martin Luther King, Jr., at Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia, April 9, 1968""

""D. Interracial Hypertension""""E. Statement of Conference of White Southerners on Race Relations""; ""F. The Richmond Statement""; ""G. Excerpts from Correspondence Regarding Merger of Seminary Work of Gammon, Morris Brown, and Morehouse""; ""H. Degrees""; ""INDEX"";

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Scribner, 1971.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613586209

9781280490972

1280490977

9780820342276

0820342270

OCLC:

753976362