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- Born to Rebel: An Autobiography
- Book
- 2002
- Published by: University of Georgia Press
summary
Born the son of a sharecropper in 1894 near Ninety Six, South Carolina, Benjamin E. Mays went on to serve as president of Morehouse College for twenty-seven years and as the first president of the Atlanta School Board. His earliest memory, of a lynching party storming through his county, taunting but not killing his father, became for Mays an enduring image of black-white relations in the South. Born to Rebel is the moving chronicle of his life, a story that interlaces achievement with the rebuke he continually confronted.
Table of Contents
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- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- pp. lvii-lx
- 1. In the Days of My Youth
- pp. 1-21
- 3. Frustrations, Doubts, Dreams
- pp. 35-49
- 4. Finding Out for Myself
- pp. 50-65
- 5. Atlanta, 1921–1924
- pp. 66-88
- 6. Morehouse and Shiloh
- pp. 89-98
- 7. Chicago to Orangeburg to Tampa
- pp. 99-105
- 8. The Tampa Story
- pp. 106-124
- 9. Two More Detours
- pp. 125-138
- 10. In the Nation's Capital
- pp. 139-148
- 11. Race and Caste Outside the U.S.A.
- pp. 149-161
- 12. Learning the Problem in Depth
- pp. 162-169
- 13. So Much with So Little and So Few
- pp. 170-195
- 14. Other Involvements
- pp. 196-212
- 16. Politicians and President Kennedy
- pp. 221-233
- 18. The Church and Race
- pp. 241-264
- 19. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- pp. 265-274
- 20. I Can Sing Atlanta: The Trail Blazers
- pp. 275-286
- 21. I Can Sing Atlanta: The Young Warriors
- pp. 287-299
- 22. Retrospect and Prospect
- pp. 300-322
- APPENDICES
- A. The World in Which I Was Born and Reared
- pp. 323-348
- D. Interracial Hypertension
- pp. 361-362
- F. The Richmond Statement
- pp. 366-367
- H. Degrees
- p. 370
Additional Information
ISBN
9780820342276
Related ISBN(s)
9780820325231
MARC Record
OCLC
753976362
Pages
464
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No