Clergyman, activist, author
"Combative Sprirituality and the Life of Benjamin E. From 1934 to 1940, Mays served as dean of the Howard University School of Religion and then moved on to the presidency of Morehouse College, a position he held with distinction for the next quarter of a century.Mays spoke early and often against segregation and for education. After graduating with honors in 1920, Mays completed several semesters of graduate work at the In 1930 Mays left this post to direct a study of black churches in the The results of the study were published in 1933 under the title Mays would focus on the vital importance of the black church in American society in a host of other writings published in the 1930s and 1940s.
In 2011, GLEAMNS established the Dr. Benjamin E. Mays Historic Preservation Site to honor and display the extraordinary life of Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays. Preskill, Stephen. Benjamin Elijah Mays was born in 1895 in Ninety-Six, a small town in South Carolina, to parents who had been born in slavery and freed at the end of the Civil War. "If white America really wants to improve Negro higher education, it would do well to recognize the fact that it will not be adequately done by allowing black colleges to die the slow death of starvation," he wrote in Perhaps Mays's greatest influence was on the individual students he encountered both in the classroom and through the college chapel. In April of 1969, when James Forman presented the Black Manifesto, a public call for reparations to the Afric… Turner, Henry McNeal 1834–1915 Widely known scholars and writers such as Lerone Bennett Jr., James Birnie, Benjamin Brawley, Michael Lomax, and Ira Reid inspired Mays to petition for the establishment a No discussion of Mays at Morehouse would be complete without mention of chapel.
My son is named Benjamin after Mays, suggested by my wife as she ran across his autobiography on a shelf. "To me black power must mean hard work, trained minds, and perfected skills to perform in a competitive society," he wrote in his critically acclaimed autobiography Church provided another outlet for his talents. Several of its graduates, including With great pride, Mays identified the group of Morehouse graduates who occupied high profile positions in the world of politics, law, and business. The following year, he and his wife, Sadie Grey, a teacher and social worker whom he had met in Chicago, moved to Florida, where Mays took over the position of executive secretary for the Tampa Urban League. Eventually Mays overcame his father's objections, however, and enrolled at the high school of Determined to prove his worth in the white man's world, Mays resolved to leave his native South Carolina and continue his education in At Bates, where he was one of only a handful of black students, Mays was surprised and heartened to find himself treated as an equal for the very first time. During this time he also produced his powerful autobiography, Encyclopedia.com gives you the ability to cite reference entries and articles according to common styles from the Modern Language Association (MLA), The Chicago Manual of Style, and the American Psychological Association (APA).
Benjamin lived on month day 1870, at address , South Carolina. He remained on the board until 1981. He later held a prominent position on the Atlanta Board of Education.Throughout his life, Mays maintained that education, personal pride, and peaceful protest were the most effective weapons in the war against racial bigotry.
Mays used chapel to build community and expand learning outside the classroom.
." During his childhood, mob violence against blacks was rampant, and brutal lynchings were a common occurrence. Born Benjamin Elijah Mays, August 1, 1894, in Epworth, SC; died March 21, 1984, in Atlanta. At that time, it was believed that the only honest occupations for black men were farming and preaching.
Mays received nearly thirty honorary doctorates and other honors and awards, including election to the Schomburg Honor Roll of Race Relations (one of only a dozen major leaders to be so honored). It must go beyond the personal and into the political.Stephen Preskill (1996) sees Mays' views as the ideological antecedent of the liberatory views of Mays's nascent liberation theology is outlined in his little-known work Mays retired from Morehouse in 1967.