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By John Herbert Roper Sr.

ISBN-10: 161117077X

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Civil rights activist, author, theologian, preacher, and educator, Benjamin Elijah Mays (1894-1984) was once essentially the most exclusive South Carolinians of the 20 th century. He prompted the lives of generations of scholars as a dean and professor of faith at Howard collage and as longtime president of Morehouse collage in Atlanta. as well as his own achievements, Mays used to be additionally a mentor and instructor to Julian Bond, founding father of the coed Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; destiny Atlanta mayor Maynard Jackson; author, preacher, and theologian Howard Washington Thurman; and the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. during this complete biography of Mays, John Herbert Roper, Sr., chronicles the cruel realities of Mays's youth and occupation within the segregated South and crafts an inspirational, compelling portrait of 1 of the main influential African American intellectuals in sleek heritage.
Born on the flip of the century in rural Edgefield County, South Carolina, Mays was once the youngest son of former slaves became tenant farmers. At simply 4 years of age, he skilled the brutal injustice of the Jim Crow period while he witnessed the bloody 1898 Phoenix revolt, sparked via black electorate' makes an attempt to workout their balloting rights.
within the early Nineteen Thirties Mays stumbled on the lessons of Mohandas Gandhi and traveled to India in 1938 to seek advice from him approximately his equipment of nonviolent protest. An honoree of the South Carolina corridor of repute and recipient of forty-nine honorary levels, Mays strived tirelessly opposed to racial prejudices and social injustices all through his profession. as well as his contributions to schooling and theology, Mays additionally labored with the nationwide city League to enhance housing, employment, and medical conditions for African americans, and he performed an important function within the integration of the younger Men's Christian organization (YMCA).
With sincere appreciation and fervent admiration for Mays's many accomplishments and lasting legacy, Roper deftly captures the guts and fervour of his topic, his lifelong quest for social equality, and his unwavering religion within the capability for stable within the American humans.

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Likely he was beyond saving from the moment he fell. Others in the white gaggle used John Watson’s telephone, the only one for miles around, to notify Sheriff Robert F. McCaslin in Greenwood town and 24 The Ravening Wolf Governor William H. Ellerbe in Columbia that there was a race riot in Phoenix. In their messages, they said that black men were gathering at Rehoboth Church to kill white men and that they needed as many white men with guns as soon as they could get them to Phoenix. The sun sank on November 8 with everyone uneasy.

He knew only that they had your identity pegged. On the store’s veranda, or piazza as John Watson liked to call it, there was a gaggle of black farmers. On this day they held their heads as high as did the white farmers who were downstairs. They too watched closely as farmers of both races came and went in and out of the store to try to vote. Red Tolbert had set up a box that looked much like the box downstairs and inside. It was 1898 23 for collecting affidavits, and his brother Thomas Paine Tolbert was in charge of this task.

In fact he organized and inspired the Brick House School, which the black children attended in Rambo. ”) This school was as important to the black folk of Rambo as Mt. Zion Church. The Reverend Marshall likely saw little difference between preaching and teaching. After all he could tell them that Jesus Christ was the great teacher, the master teacher. In his own later years, Bennie Mays could see a difference between the Reverend Marshall’s preaching and his teaching, and Mays came to regret that small difference.

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