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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, and ...
Benjamin E. Mays was an educator, leader, pastor, and civil rights activist during the time of segregation, lynchings, and Jim Crow Laws in the South. Born on August 1, 1894 in Greenwood County, South Carolina, Mays was the youngest of eight children of former slaves Hezekiah Mays and Louvenia Carter Mays.
Mays, Benjamin Elijah. August 1, 1894 to March 28, 1984. Described by Martin Luther King, Jr., as his “spiritual mentor,” Benjamin Mays was a distinguished Atlanta educator who served as president of Morehouse College from 1940 to 1967 (Scott King, 249).
5 de mar. de 2016 · He authored seminal books on Christianity and race relations; his autobiography was reissued in 1987 and 2003. He taught seminary and college students, including Martin Luther King, Jr., to excel and challenge segregation through nonviolence. Mays was King's eulogist before an international television audience.
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 ...
Benjamin Elijah Mays was born in 1895 in South Carolina. He graduated from Bates College in Maine in 1920 and attended the University of Chicago for his master's and doctorate degrees. He was also ordained as a Baptist minister.
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.
