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18. Jan. 2007 · Benjamin Mays, Christian minister, scholar, advocate for justice, and an educator, was born in Ninety-Six, South Carolina on August 1, 1894, the youngest of eight children. His parents, Louvenia Carter and Hezekiah Mays, were tenant farmers and former slaves. Mays attended Virginia Union University before … Read MoreBenjamin Mays (1895-1984)
Benjamin E. Mays was a prominent educator, minister and civil rights activist. He said his life's greatest honor was that he was able to serve as a mentor to Martin Luther King, Junior. For nearly three decades (1940-1967), Mays was president of Morehouse College, a respected black school for men in Atlanta. King was a Morehouse graduate and ...
Benjamin Mays. Benjamin Elijah Mays (August 1, 1894 – March 28, 1984) was an American Baptist minister and American rights leader who is credited with laying the intellectual foundations of the American civil rights movement. Mays taught and mentored many influential activists, including Martin Luther King Jr, Julian Bond, Maynard Jackson ...
29. März 1984 · Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, a nationally known educator who was an early champion of the civil rights movement, died in an Atlanta hospital yesterday after a long illness. He was 89 years old. He was 89 ...
Most famous as a mentor of Martin Luther King, Jr. during King’s time as a student at Morehouse, Benjamin E. Mays was born in Epworth, South Carolina, in 1894. After graduating with honors in philosophy from Bates College in 1917, Mays accepted a teaching position in mathematics at Morehouse College and entered the Divinity School at the University of Chicago in 1921, attending during summers.
Benjamin Elijah Mays, educator, was born in 1895 in South Carolina and graduated from Bates College in Maine in 1920. He attended the University of Chicago for his master’s degree and doctorate, and, while he was working on those degrees, was ordained into the Baptist ministry. He taught at Morehouse College and at South Carolina State College. From 1934 to 1940 he served as dean of the ...
Vor 3 Tagen · Benjamin E. Mays. Class of 1920 – ‘Schoolmaster of the Movement’. Benjamin Elijah Mays was born in South Carolina in 1894 to former slaves. The youngest of eight children, he grew up in a segregated, Jim Crow society (Mays first earned the right to vote in 1945 when he was 51 years old). He graduated from Bates in 1920, after which he ...
