Born to Rebel by Benjamin E Mays

Born to Rebel by Benjamin E Mays

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.

An inspiring chronicle of a black man who refused to be subjugated to and by the System- Coretta Scott King; ""Mays's life exemplifies a tradition of excellence."" - New York Review of Books; ""Mays' account of the lot of Negroes during his youth - and during most of his adult life, too - is a factual recital and a terrible indictment."" - New Yorker

Benjamin E. Mays, educated at Bates College and the University of Chicago, was a dean at Howard University, president of Morehouse College, and president of the Atlanta School Board. His books include The Negro's Church and Disturbed about Man.

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ISBN 13	9780820325231
ISBN 10	0820325236
Title	Born to Rebel
Author	Benjamin E Mays
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Georgia Press
Year published	2003-04-30
Number of pages	464
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