In Greenwood County, the place of his [Dr. Benjamin Mays's] birth, he experienced racists, violence, and discrimination. Two years later, he was named national student secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), based in Atlanta.In 1930 Mays left this post to direct a study of black churches in the Mays would focus on the vital importance of the black church in American society in a host of other writings published in the 1930s and 1940s. Mary McLeod Bethune rose from poverty to become one of the nation’s most d… Cole, Johnnetta B. One of Morehouse's most distinguished graduates, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. '48, remembers Dr. Mays as his "spiritual mentor" and "intellectual father. Its students became distinguished by their accomplishments after graduation. Twenty-one institutions of higher learning had Morehouse graduates as president. Within the “Cite this article” tool, pick a style to see how all available information looks when formatted according to that style. 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. Dr. Benjamin E. Mays Benjamin Elijah Mays was born in 1895 in Ninety-Six, a small town in South Carolina, to parents who had been born in slavery and freed at the end of the Civil War. He is remembered for his outstanding leadership and service as a teacher, preacher, mentor, scholar, author and activist in the civil rights movement.Born August 1, 1894 near Epworth, South Carolina, he was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Bates College in Maine.
His wife, Sadie, accompanied him on most of his trips.Mays was named president of Morehouse College in July of 1940, exactly 19 years after he had begun his teaching career there. "As a child my life was one of frustration and doubt," Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays was a giant in the Christian ministry and American education. In early 1940, banker and Morehouse trustee John Wheeler was dispatched by the Board of Trustees to recruit Mays for the presidency of the school. Hoping to make a difference in the lives of deprived black people, he then moved, with his new wife Sadie Gray, to the Urban League in Tampa, Florida for two years. His obsession with quality faculty, previously noted during his years at Howard, quickly became evident at Morehouse.He searched widely for faculty with doctorates.
At the age of nine he received a standing ovation from the Mount Zion Baptist congregation for his recitation of the Mays needed all the encouragement he could get.
It must go beyond the personal and into the political.Stephen Preskill (1996) sees Mays' views as the ideological antecedent of the liberatory views of Mays's nascent liberation theology is outlined in his little-known work Mays retired from Morehouse in 1967. His greatest honor, he later said, was having taught and inspired After his retirement from Morehouse College in 1967, Mays served as a consultant for a variety of governmental, educational, civic, and religious organizations, and in 1969 he became a member of the Atlanta Board of Education. Preskill, Stephen. WATKINS, WILLIAM H. "Mays, Benjamin (1895–1984) By then the modern Upon the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Mays concluded his eulogy for his former student and long-standing friend by saying, "If physical death was the price he had to pay to rid America of prejudice and injustice, nothing could be more redemptive. "During his first three months nothing was planned to be or currently being constructed on campus.Soon after primary advancements were made with the college, The introduction to his speech compilation at Morehouse notes him with the following: Most importantly, he began aggressively collecting the considerable tuition arrears from students. He published nearly 2000 articles and nine books.In 1926, he married Sadie Gray, a teacher and social worker, who died in 1969.