Benjamin Mays - Knowledge (XXG)

1049: 1068: 1145: 773:(YMCA). A couple of months later, he was asked to serve as the director of Study of Black Churches in the United States by the Institute of Social and Religious Research of New York. In 1932, Mays returned to the University of Chicago with the intent of completing a Ph.D. in line with what was asked by the Institute of Social and Religious Research of New York. After some deliberation between fields of studies he could pursue a doctorate in, he eventually decided to study religion and not mathematics or philosophy. Mays also worked as a student assistant to Dr. Lacey Kirk Williams, pastor of 979:. The Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Morehouse approached Mays and requested the school be shut down for the remainder of the war, which prompted Mays to lash out and reject his proposition publicly. Mays counter-proposal was to open the school to younger students who were ineligible to be drafted. He moved to improve the academic quality of the students by lowering admissions rates, and reforming the academic platform. College faculty were often encouraged to befriend students and provided them with guidance in a tumultuous social scene at the time. 1340:

routes, in the same buses. This was named the "Majority to Minority" volunteer plan, better known as the "M to M" plan. The plan also allowed each student whose race was in the majority at a school to transfer to a school where they would be in the minority race; this was advantageous to the black populace of Atlanta. The program was later known as the "Volunteer Transfer Program" or VTP, and was ministered by the federal courts and the board. On July 28, 1974, Mays signed the alignment order declaring that the

1366: 801: 3822: 3808: 746:. Hope spoke to Mays about the lack of "a fine education for the colored in Atlanta". Mays traveled to Atlanta in 1921 and served as a pastor at the Shiloh Baptist Church until 1923. In March 1925, Mays was award an M.A. in religious studies from the university. Upon receiving his master's degree, he wrote to the pastorate with his intention of resigning to pursue a doctorate in the coming years. However, due to his financial status, he took up a teaching position instructing English at 676: 1523: 33: 1282: 564: 1301:, a collection of his sermons at Morehouse College. His publications described his early life in South Carolina and the racial tensions he had to overcome. During this time he began to give speeches and commencement addresses at various institutions to spread both religious and racial tolerance. He ended his social tours in the early 1980s, giving a total of 250 commencement addresses at colleges, universities, and schools. In 1978, the 723:. The ticket salesman only sold Mays a ticket when he lied about who it was for. While riding to St. Louis, the Pullman warned Mays that he was risking his life by sitting in first class and that he should get off at the next stop. Shortly after, three white men, guns drawn, escorted Mays into a car in the back known as the "Jim Crow car". He eventually made it to the Omega Psi Phi meeting, where he spoke of his experience. 865:, and establishing national prominence. Mays expressed interest in the position but Wheeler cautioned him about the odds of him actually being offered the job. On March 10, 1940, Mays was offered the presidency of Morehouse by its trustees; he moved to Atlanta shortly after. When Mays left Howard University, he was honored with the renaming of the newly constructed home of the divinity school to "Benjamin Mays Hall." 730:, a railway assistant. Much of the money he had earned growing up was spent financing his time at Bates, on Christmas Day 1921, Mays held only 45 dollars (equivalent to $ 769 in 2023). Mays began labor organizing to increase his wage, which was seen negatively by the Porter managers. Although he legally established a labor group for Pullman Porters, he was fired from his job for "attracting too much attention to 1216: 765:. While there, the Urban League produced what became known as the "Mays Report", which detailed the growth of Tampa's African-American communities and the difficulties they experienced living in segregated neighborhoods. Though he did not stay in the area for long, Mays made enough of an impact on the nascent push for civil rights in the region that he has been honored with a bust on the 897:. Gandhi told Mays that there was never an instance where violence was acceptable especially that which was undertaken in retaliation. He was told that "one must pay the price for protest, even with one's life". In response to the caste system. Gandhi believed that there those with darker skin were not inherently untouchable but labeled it a "necessary economic injustice". 1258:

qualified on that score. No! He was not ahead of his time. No man is ahead of his time. Every man is within his star, each in his time. Each man must respond to the call of God in his lifetime and not in somebody else's time. Jesus had to respond to the call of God in the first century A.D., and not in the 20th century. He had but one life to live. He couldn't wait.

1503:'s highest alumni distinction is known as the Benjamin E. Mays Medal and is reserved for "the alumna or alumnus who has performed distinguished service to the larger (worldwide) community and been deemed a graduate of outstanding accomplishment." The inaugural winner was Mays himself. The college established the Benjamin E. Mays Distinguished Professorship in 1985. 619:. Chase granted him a full financial aid package and boarding upon hearing his story and reviewing his academic background. Virginia Union's president warned him that studies at Bates would be "too hard for a colored boy" and that he should stay in Virginia. Mays ignored his warnings and enrolled in 1917, aged 23. While at Bates he felt pressure to compete with " 738:. He was asked to sit at the colored area in the dining halls and was only allowed to use certain rooms for reading. Mays tolerated the segregation with the mindset that he was "only there to get a degree, to convince another brilliant set of Yankees that he could do their work." Although he was licensed to preach in 1919, he was officially 1325:, where he supervised the peaceful desegregation of Atlanta's public schools as a consequence of the 1970 federal court order. Members of the board argued that since the bussing was not a part of their system they did not have to create one for desegregation; however, the idea was shot down by Mays, who cited the 711:, a national fraternity for colored men. This organization was known for pooling resources and information among its members so Mays viewed it with great interest. Mays viewed it as "a mountain top from which he could see above and beyond". In 1924, upon hearing news that there was to be a fraternity meeting in 1309:

hung a commissioned portrait of him in its chamber. These awards from South Carolina were deeply appreciated by Mays as he left the state in fear of his life and this he loved. During the social transformation of the South in the 1970s, Mays' legacy in his birthplace was solidified and he took on the

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when the sports franchise moved from Milwaukee to Atlanta. Robinson invited Mays because of his efforts to integrate the baseball team in Atlanta. Robinson said of Mays: "When we first moved here it was the first team of major league caliber to ever move this far south to play baseball. And of course

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created the Benjamin Elijah Mays Lifetime Achievement Award for "an individual who—during his or her lifetime—has demonstrated a longstanding commitment to the educational needs of urban school children through his or her service as a local school board member." Due to his stature in academia he was

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was called to give dignity to the common man. If a prophet is one who interprets in clear and intelligible language the will of God, Martin Luther King Jr. fits that designation. If a prophet is one who does not seek popular causes to espouse, but rather the causes he thinks are right, Martin Luther

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While King was only in his 20s, Mays helped him assume the responsibility of his actions in the civil rights rallies in which he participated. King needed Mays "for spiritual support as he faced the burden of being perceived as the personification of black America's hopes and dreams, it was Mays who

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Mays was offered the presidency on March 10 and inaugurated the sixth president on August 1, 1940. Upon his assumption of the presidency, the school was in severe financial distress. In his first speech to an incoming freshman class in 1940, he said, "If Morehouse is to continue to be great; it must

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movement. Six years later, Mays was tapped to lead Morehouse out of its financial insecurity. Over his tenure from 1940 to 1967, the college's financial endowment doubled, enrollment quadrupled, and it became academically competitive. By the 1960s, Mays established the college as a feeder school for

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was constructed on February 10, 1985, and was open to students of all races. He retired from the board in 1981. The Atlanta Board of Education had a rule against naming buildings after people unless they had been deceased for two years; they waived it for Mays; he visited the school frequently when

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Mays wanted to hire more teachers, and to pay those teachers a better salary. To do that, Mays sought to be more strict in the collection of student fees, and wanted to increase Morehouse's endowment from $ 1,114,000. He more than quadrupled the endowment that he inherited by the end of his 27-year

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whenever possible growing up. Mays' older sister, Susie, began to teach him how to read before his formal schooling commenced, which gave him a year's growth in reading compared to the other students in his primary schools. School officials cited him as "destined for greatness." Growing up, he went

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On July 1, 1973, Mays appointed Alonzo Crim as the first African-American superintendent of schools, which was met with backlash from the other board members and city officials. He used his power and influence in Atlanta to shield Crim from the criticism and allowed him the opportunity to run the

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His "commanding and demanding personality" was largely credited for the exponential levels of desegregation in Atlanta. The Atlanta Compromise Plan prompted Mays to advocate for the administration of the plan to be "colorless", that is to say, black and white students were transported on the same

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urged an audience of mostly white people "not to dishonor name by trying to solve our problems through rioting in the streets. If they could turn their sorrow into hope for the future and use their outrage to invigorate a peaceful climb to the mountaintop, Martin Luther King Jr. will have died a

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during his time as a student at Morehouse College. While King was a student from 1944 to 1948 he often went to Morehouse's chapel to hear Mays preach. After the sermons, King would run up to Mays and engage with him about the ideas he presented often following him into his office, hours after the

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In physical stature Mays stood six feet tall, but appeared taller because of his erect posture--a habit he developed during his youth to walk around with dignity and pride; he weighed approximately 180 pounds and had a full head of iron-grey air with a contrasting dark complexion. His distinctive

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as its dean of religious studies. He was instructed to build up the department and establish a reputation for well-trained ministers. Mays first renovated its library and secured loans from the federal government to expand it. His second objective was to separate the federally-funded portions of

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Supreme Court decision. It was during this time that Mays ordered the city to create bus routes to cater to African-American neighborhoods. The board did not support the decision and asked Georgia's Attorney General, Arthur K. Bolton, for a review of the case. Bolton brought the city government

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and demanded tuition fees on time, which earned him the nickname "Buck Bennie;" the student newspaper occasionally ran headlines such as "Buck Bennie Rides Again," during the first couple of years of his Morehouse presidency. However, he often helped students pay their bills by offering work or

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finding it around campus. He would write to the employers of the college's graduates to ask them how the recent grads were doing as a way to measure the Morehouse education. Within two years of his presidency, Mays was so successful that he was able to regain control of Morehouse's finances.

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to accredit the new School of Religion. During this time Mays developed a reputation for exacting standards and elitism. He was a vocal opponent of the notion that black men are inherently more violent than their white counterparts in universities. He was a vocal proponent of the

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school system. During the later part of his tenure he greatly expanded the jurisdiction of the board, and upon his retirement in 1981 Mays was honored by the naming of a street. Near the end of his tenure, the board voted to name a newly constructed school after Mays;

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of hundreds of buildings, schools, streets, halls, awards, grants, scholarships, fellowships, and statues. Although he through his life had been appreciative of all of them, he " reported to have said he was moved most deeply when a small black church in

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in a local cinema, the crowd cheered for the white slaver which frightened Mays. In college, he was captain of the debate team, played on the football team and served as the Class Day Speaker. He graduated with departmental honors with a

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at the Yankee level" which drove him to dedicate him to his studies. He would write in a diary: "Yankee superiority was the gauntlet thrown down. I had to pick it up." Working to midnight weekly and arising at 4 AM, Mays excelled at

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The speech was well received by the attendants of the funeral and the American public. It was later hailed as "a masterpiece of twentieth century oratory." After the death of King, Mays drew controversy when his sermon at the

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as he thought the school would best nurture Mays' intellect. However, before attending graduate school Mays needed to seek an undergraduate education. His relatives and teachers forced him to attend a Baptist university–the

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and often participated with him in religious organizations in Atlanta. Mays dined at the King's homes from time to time and spoke with the young Martin Luther King Jr. about his career prospects and ambitions. His mother,

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which prohibited funding to religious enterprises. After he successfully removed the School of Religion from the auspices of the federal government he was tasked with securing funding from wealthy donors from the North.

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Due to the college's small student body, Mays personally mentored many students, most notably King; the two first met in 1944. King was known as Mays' "spiritual son" and Mays his "intellectual father." After King's

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in the United States and was submitted to the university faculty as his dissertation in 1935. Historian John Herbert Roper estimates that Mays was one of 20 African Americans to earn a doctorate during that year.

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were cultivated from his youth through the lessons imbibed from his parents and eldest sister. The peak of his public influence coincided with his nearly three-decade tenure as the sixth president of

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tenure. Over Mays' twenty-seven years leading Morehouse, the enrollment increased 169%, from 238 to almost a thousand students and furthered the motivation for graduates to pursue graduate studies.

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and is listed as a State Historic Site by the government of South Carolina, being referred to as an "education icon" by the South Carolina Radio Network in 2011. Upon his death Mays was designated

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Jelks, Randal Maurice. Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement : A Biography. Chapel Hill, NC, USA: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 5 November 2014.

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During his first three months nothing was planned to be or currently being constructed on campus. Mays had inherited "mountains of uncollected student bills" which served as a threat to the

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physical appearance commented his towering intellectual stature. When Mays walked into a room, eyes were likely to focus in his direction. His mere physical presence attracted attention.

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continue to produce outstanding personalities." Mays set out to improve the training of Morehouse men, increase enrollment, grow its endowment, and collect tuition payments.

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Many associated with the college referenced him as a "builder of men." To improve the training of Morehouse men, Mays set out to advance a new curriculum based on the

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Shortly after receiving his doctorate, he was called by the presidents of multiple universities to lead their religion departments. Mays chose to accept a position at

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was influential to young Mays because he could see his name (of Biblical origins) mentioned frequently, instilling a feeling of empowerment within. During this time,

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said Mays was a "great influence on Martin Luther King Jr.," " example of what kind of minister Martin could become," and "possessor of great moral principles."

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presidential runs. Carter wrote to Mays on a monthly basis during his presidency asking him about "human rights, international affairs, and discrimination."

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As president he was in great demand as a public speaker. He met hundreds of national and international leaders and served as a trusted advisor to Presidents

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Ronnick, Michele Valerie (2023). "Preaching with the Choir: An Easter Sermon with Dr. Benjamin E. Mays at South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, SC".

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held the job as King's consigliere over the next fourteen years as the death threats against him grew more ominous and the public battles more dangerous."

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Mays, Benjamin E.. Born to Rebel : An Autobiography. Athens, GA, USA: University of Georgia Press, 2003. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 5 November 2014.

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Mays' contributions to the civil rights movement have had him credited as the "movement's intellectual conscience" or alternatively the "

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which passed both houses of Congress but has yet to be signed by a U.S. president. The petition was sent once more in 2012 to U.S. President

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movement. He specifically wished to increase the training of black physicians, ministers and lawyers. Although Morehouse College was not a

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proposed a bill in January 1993 that would commemorate Mays on a federal stamp and requested that Mays be given the Medal of Freedom

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on April 4, 1968. King and Mays promised each other that whoever outlived the other would deliver the eulogy at the other's funeral.

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was one of the guys, one of the persons really that made things a lot easier for myself and some of the other black ball players."

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After Mays stepped down from the Atlanta Board of Education presidency in 1981, a petition was sent to the desk of U.S. President

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teacher at a local college before she died after a brief illness two years after they married at age 28. He met his second wife,

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Mays secured a multi-million dollar package from donors by 1930, and was averaging yearly contributions of $ 750,000 during the

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from universities. He was awarded 40 of them during his lifetime and as of February 2018, he has received 56 honorary degrees.

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in 1949, respectively. Although he was a college president, he was not allowed to vote in the 1950s until he was 52 years old.

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Historical Monument Trail. From 1928 to 1930, he lived in Atlanta and served as the national student secretary of the

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but his time as president ended before he could address the request. A request was sent once again to U.S. President

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members searched his house in search of relatives after local newspapers announced that cotton prices had plummeted.

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along with his wife Sadie. Morehouse College established the Benjamin E. Mays Scholarship shortly after his death.

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died in 1963, President Kennedy sent Mays and his Vice President to represent the United States at the funeral in

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in Mays' neighborhood. Throughout his tenure as governor, 18 black men were lynched and dozens were hurt in the

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Howard University from the new school of religion. At the time, the university was partially funded by the

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Benjamin E. Mays : the role of character in the prolonged struggle for African American civil rights

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professor Lawrence Carter described Mays as "one of the most significant figures in American history."

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which he used to shape his civil rights ideology and practice. Mays asked Gandhi about the influence

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from 1925 to 1926. Mays left his teaching position after routinely clashing with other faculty over

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Benjamin Elijah Mays was born on August 1, 1894, in Epworth, South Carolina, in the small county of

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a Baptist minister in 1921. During this time he encountered John Hope, the current president of

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described Mays as "one of the most significant figures in American history". Memorials include

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South on a repurposed cotton plantation to freed sharecroppers. He traveled North to attend

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Shortly after graduation, he married his first wife, Ellen Edith Harvin, in August 1920 in

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of the college. In 1933, Morehouse was doing so poorly financially that it had allowed

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in 1920. Contrary to popular writing and official college records, Mays never received

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The introduction to his speech compilation at Morehouse notes him with the following:

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Mays and Morehouse : how Benjamin E. Mays developed Morehouse College, 1940-1967

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to take over its financial direction and budget. He earned a reputation for being a

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it was being built. He is widely credited as the most influential figure in the

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The Statue of Benjamin E. Mays at Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.

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Benjamin E. Mays International Magnet School, in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.

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Dr Benjamin E. Mays Elementary School in Greenwood, South Carolina, U.S.

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movement and frequently lectured about its foundlings and applications.

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in 1934 which elevated him to national prominence as a proponent of the

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sermon ended. He was also a friend of Martin Luther King Jr.'s father,

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to the Mid-Century White House Conference on Children and Youth. When

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Benjamin Elijah Mays, schoolmaster of the movement : a biography

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Mount Zion Progressive Missionary Baptist Church, April 9, 1968

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and death, Mays delivered the eulogy where he described King in his "

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together with the board and with Mays created what was known as the

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from where he began his career in activism as a pastor in Georgia's

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along with "only a dozen major leaders to be so honored." In 2011,

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Mays Crossroads on Highway 171 in Ninety Six, South Carolina, U.S.

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United Pentecostal Council of the Assemblies of God, Incorporated

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Mays United Methodist Church, in Ninety Six, South Carolina, U.S.

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In 1911, he was enrolled at the Brick House School in Epworth, a

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The magnificent Mays : a biography of Benjamin Elijah Mays

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Benjamin E. Mays Elementary Academy, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

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Benjamin Mays Historic Site, in Greenwood, South Carolina, U.S.

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rose to power in South Carolina which saw to the redoubling of

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Benjamin E. Mays High School in Pacolet, South Carolina, U.S.

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After King gained national attention as a consequence of his

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Benjamin E. Mays National Memorial in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.

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The two developed a close relationship that continued until

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had in his life and what his personal thoughts were on the

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Mays was told to be cautious of white people and exhibit

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At age seventy-five, Mays was elected president of the

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Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith

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If Jesus was called to preach the Gospel to the poor,

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granted him the Distinguished Educator Award and the

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To finance his time in university, Mays worked as a

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Benjamin E. Mays Archives in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.

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(November 3, 1984). 1657:List of University of Chicago people 1425:listed Benjamin Mays on his list of 1196:"No man is ahead of his time" speech 1140:Connection to Martin Luther King Jr. 6119:Activists from Georgia (U.S. state) 4908:United Sabbath-Day Adventist Church 4860:Pentecostal Assemblies of the World 3854:Newberry, Brittany; Tanner, Sarah. 567:Mays traveled to Maine to study at 507:to generate income for his family. 6204:Baptists from Georgia (U.S. state) 6169:20th-century American male writers 5026:Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A. 4936:Venerable Mother Henriette DeLille 4848:Mount Sinai Holy Church of America 4075:African Methodist Episcopal Church 2781:"The Life of Benjamin Elijah Mays" 1600:requesting that Mays be given the 1490:National School Boards Association 1155:Mays first became associated with 1061:, Martin Luther King, Sr, and Mays 703:as a graduate student, earning an 66: – July 1, 1967 14: 3240:. 2023. 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He was elected to the 1385:, but in May 1995 his body was 823:U.S. Department of the Interior 425:racial desegregation of Atlanta 261: 239: 4867:Pentecostal Churches of Christ 4696:Apostolic Assemblies of Christ 3704:Jelks, Randal Maurice (2012). 1427:100 Greatest African Americans 683:after receiving his B.A. from 357:historically black institution 46:President of Morehouse College 1: 6224:African-American male writers 5074:George Augustus Stallings Jr. 4971:Servant of God Sr Thea Bowman 4901:United Holy Church of America 3973:Sheftall, Jr. (January 2013)* 3569:"Benjamin Mays Historic Site" 3395:"Dr. Benjamin E. Mays | MMUF" 3292:"Benjamin Mays Historic Site" 3121:"Dr. Benjamin E. Mays | MMUF" 1809:"Mays House Museum - History" 1602:Presidential Medal of Freedom 914:Mays as the 6th president of 873:In 1936–37, Mays traveled to 452:Presidential Medal of Freedom 446:have been brought forward to 407: in 1963, Mays gave the 205:Dr. Benjamin E. 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Mays papers 3742:Lawler, Milton (2011). 1642:List of peace activists 1592:Medal of Freedom effort 1526:Bust of Mays along the 1334:Atlanta Compromise Plan 1310:title of "native son". 1297:and went on to publish 1265:Ebenezer Baptist Church 1190:"I Have a Dream" speech 967:Effects of World War II 471:Early life and ancestry 393:African-American firsts 359:of higher learning, in 314:"Bennie"; "Buck Bennie" 5935:Constance Baker Motley 5815:Frederick D. Patterson 5551:Martin Luther King Jr. 5479:Channing Heggie Tobias 5367:William T. B. Williams 5343:Richard Berry Harrison 5327:Mordecai Wyatt Johnson 4760:Charles Harrison Mason 4703:Apostolic Faith Church 4650:Martin Luther King Jr. 4525:Clinton Caldwell Boone 4445:Martin Luther King Jr. 4244:Reverdy Cassius Ransom 4199:Vashti Murphy McKenzie 3377:"NAACP Spingarn Medal" 3356:crim.education.gsu.edu 2148:Dumas, Carrie (2006). 1553:Benjamin Mays Hall of 1531: 1411:Martin Luther King Jr. 1374: 1320:Atlanta Public Schools 1290: 1260: 1162:Martin Luther King Sr. 1157:Martin Luther King Jr. 1152: 1149:Martin Luther King Jr. 994: 919: 809: 696: 572: 207:Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. 5895:Myrlie Evers-Williams 5651:Clarence Mitchell Jr. 5503:Mabel Keaton Staupers 5263:Charles Sidney Gilpin 4991:Archbishop James Lyke 4986:Fr Cyprian Davis, OSB 4889:(Elias Dempsey Smith) 4565:Willie James Jennings 4329:Jermain Wesley Loguen 4254:Charles Spencer Smith 4114:Jamal Harrison Bryant 3470:"Benjamin Mays Medal" 2887:"King Encyclopedia," 2355:thetampariverwalk.com 1525: 1437:In his home state of 1368: 1342:Atlanta School System 1284: 1167:Alberta Williams King 1147: 1006:University of Chicago 989: 913: 895:caste system in India 835:Franklin D. 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