Benjamin Elijah Mays (August 1, 1894 – March 28, 1984) was a - TopicsExpress



          

Benjamin Elijah Mays (August 1, 1894 – March 28, 1984) was a United States minister, educator, scholar, social activist and the president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia from 1940 to 1967. Mays was also a significant mentor to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and was among the most articulate and outspoken critics of segregation before the rise of the modern civil rights movement in the United States.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 22:39:10 +0000

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