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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806174803321

Autore

Mays Benjamin E (Benjamin Elijah), <1894-1984.>

Titolo

Born to rebel : an autobiography / / Benjamin E. Mays ; with a revised foreword by Orville Vernon Burton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, Ga., : University of Georgia Press, 2003

ISBN

1-280-49097-7

9786613586209

0-8203-4227-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (465 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BurtonOrville Vernon

Disciplina

378/.112

B

Soggetti

African Americans - Civil rights

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: New York : Scribner, 1971.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""COVER""; ""CONTENTS""; ""FOREWORD""; ""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""1. In the Days of My Youth""; ""2. ""Be Careful and Stay Out of Trouble""""; ""3. Frustrations, Doubts, Dreams""; ""4. Finding Out for Myself""; ""5. Atlanta, 1921-1924""; ""6. Morehouse and Shiloh""; ""7. Chicago to Orangeburg to Tampa""; ""8. The Tampa Story""; ""9. Two More Detours""; ""10. In the Nation's Capital""; ""11. Race and Caste Outside the U.S.A.""; ""12. Learning the Problem in Depth""; ""13. So Much with So Little and So Few""; ""14. Other Involvements""

""15. Southern Negro Leaders Challenged the White South""""16. Politicians and President Kennedy""; ""17. Morehouse School of Religion and the Interdenomination Center""; ""18. The Church and Race""; ""19. Martin Luther King, Jr.""; ""20. I Can Sing Atlanta: The Trail Blazers""; ""21. I Can Sing Atlanta: The Young Warriors""; ""22. Retrospect and Prospect""; ""APPENDICES""; ""A. The World in Which I Was Born and Reared""; ""B. The Church Amidst Ethnic and Racial Tensions""; ""C. Eulogy at the Funeral Services of Martin Luther King, Jr., at Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia, April 9, 1968""

""D. Interracial Hypertension""""E. Statement of Conference of White Southerners on Race Relations""; ""F. The Richmond Statement""; ""G. Excerpts from Correspondence Regarding Merger of Seminary Work of



Gammon, Morris Brown, and Morehouse""; ""H. Degrees""; ""INDEX"";