Benjamin Mays
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1894 – 1984
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Who was Benjamin Mays?
Benjamin Elijah Mays 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.
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- Born
- Aug 1, 1894
Ninety Six - Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Chicago
- Bates College
- South Carolina State University
- Dillard University
- Virginia Union University
- Lived in
- South Carolina
- Died
- Mar 28, 1984
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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