Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement A Biography / Randal Maurice Jelks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jelks, Randal Maurice, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights.

African Americans.

African American educators--Biography.

African American educators.

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

Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.).

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

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 chu

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908809-3-2

979-88-9313-241-0

1-4696-0174-5

0-8078-6987-2

OCLC:

782879906