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The magnificent Mays
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ISBN: 1282165739 9786613808806 1611171849 9781611171846 9781282165731 9781611170771 161117077X 6613808806 Year: 2012 Publisher: Columbia The University of South Carolina Press

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A comprehensive biography of a dedicated civil rights activist and distinguished South Carolinian.


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Benjamin Elijah Mays, schoolmaster of the movement
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ISBN: 1469601745 0807869872 9781469601748 9780807869871 0807835366 9780807835364 1469613913 9798893132410 Year: 2012 Publisher: Chapel Hill

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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 chu


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Breaking ground
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ISBN: 0820346934 9780820346939 9780820346632 0820346632 Year: 2014 Publisher: Athens

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While Louis W. Sullivan was a student at Morehouse College, Morehouse president Benjamin Mays said something to the student body that stuck with him for the rest of his life. ""The tragedy of life is not failing to reach our goals,"" Mays said. ""It is not having goals to reach."". In Breaking Ground , Sullivan recounts his extraordinary life beginning with his childhood in Jim Crow south Georgia and continuing through his trailblazing endeavors training to become a physician in an almost entirely white environment in the Northeast, founding and then leading the Morehouse School of Medicine in


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The Morehouse mystique
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ISBN: 1421406047 9781421406046 9781421404431 1421404435 Year: 2012 Publisher: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press

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Their tireless efforts in creating this eminent Black institution changed the landscape of medical education and the racial and ethnic makeup of physicians and health care professions.

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