The Magnificent Mays: A Biography of Benjamin Elijah Mays

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Abbeville, S.C., 12, 30, 31 Abbott, Robert Sengstacke, 199 Abernathy, Ralph David, 244, 260, 266, 267, 296, 297 Abram, Morris, 287 Adams, John, 63 Adams, Walter, 270, 271 Agency for International Development (USAID), 270 Agnes Scott College, 214 Agnew, Spiro Theodore, 272 agraha, 153 Aiken County, S.C., 21 Alabama, 142, 168, 184, 194, 234, 253, 260, 306 Allen, Ivan, 267, 287 Alexander, Will Winton, 99–101, 108, 222, 223 American Association of Theological Schools, 189, 249, 250 American Baptist Home Mission Society, 98, 208 American Federation of Labor, 76 American Legion, Tampa Post no. 5, 135 Ames, Jessie Daniel, 125, 126, 145, 211 Anderson, J. G., 137, 138 animarum nexus, 163, 179, 187 Antioch College, 304 Archer, Samuel Howard, 92, 101, 105, 207–9, 213, 217, 223 Archer High School, 304 Aristotle, ix, 41, 55, 56, 62, 63, 65, 66, 79, 80, 128, 154, 156, 157, 185, 255; Nicomachean Ethics, ix, 79. See also megalosukos Arkansas Agricultural, Mech anical and Normal College , 89 Arnall, Ellis, 285, 296 Asbury, Francis, 42 Atkinson, Ruth, 133, 134, 137, 138, 145 Atlanta, Ga., 85–88, 90, 91, 93–96, 98, 99, 100–108, 126, 131, 134, 142, 143, 155, 189, 207, 208, 211, 216, 221, 229, 230, 234, 238, 254, 262–64, 267, 268, 273, 276, 285, 286, 288, 290, 293, 294, 300, 303, 304 Atlanta Baptist College, 85, 208. See also Morehouse College Atlanta Board of Education, 218, 269, 286, 287, 291, 294 Atlanta Constitution, 240, 241, 267 Atlanta PTA, 304 Atlanta Riot of 1906, 263 Atlanta University, 86, 108, 123, 142, 223, 275, 276, 279, 299; park, 86; student center, 276; university system , 86, 108, 143, 205, 209, 213, 223, 224, 229, 230, 249, 252, 254, 273, 275, 277, 279–81 Atlanta Urban League, 134. See also National League on Urban Conditions among Negroes (Urban League) Aubrey, Edwin Ewart, 159–63, 165, 171, 173, 176, 179, 181, 187, 189, 195, 229, 232 Auburn Theological Seminary , 187 Augusta, Ga., 85, 208 Augustine, St., 64, 71, 80, 115, 165, 171 B. E. Mays Day, 305 Babylon, 72, 143, 151, 165, 190 Baird, A. Craig, 65–67, 72, 147 Banneker, Benjamin, 166 Baptists, 36, 43, 52, 81, 83, 85, 112, 114, 117, 143, 151, 153, 154, 160, 162, 163, 165, 170, 171, 192, 200–202, 216, 221, 223, 239, 240, 247, 268, 272, 289, 290 Barth, Karl, 162 Bates College, ix, 1, 54, 57, 58, 60, 69–72, 75, 78, 87, 90, 143, 146, 176, 213, 214, 222, 230, 255, 268, 306 Bates, Ruby, 194 Beech, Harvey E., 216, 218 Bell, Griffin, 303 Benedict College, 36, 43, 126, 127, 239 Benjamin E. Mays Crossroads , Greenwood County, S.C., 305 Benjamin E. Mays Drive Southwest, Atlanta, 305 Index 358 Index Benjamin E. Mays High School, Atlanta, 304 Benjamin E. Mays Middle School, Spartanburg County, S.C., 305 Benjaminites, 15, 18, 38 Bennett, John C., 242 Bennett, Lerone, Jr., 216, 217 Bethune, Mary McLeod, 182 Bible, 17, 20, 24, 67, 85, 181, 256, 258 Bilbo, Theodore, 185, 191, 227 Birth of a Nation, The, 67, 68, 211 Black Enterprise, 218 Black Muslims, 263, 264 Black Panthers, 263, 275 Blease, Coleman Livingston, 180, 199, 202 Blount, Elizabeth Gray, 122 Blount, Madison, 120–23 Blue Ridge YMCA camp, 144, 145 Bond, Julian, 263, 282, 283 Booker T. Washington High School, Tampa, 135 Born to Play Ball (Willie Mays), 298 Born to Rebel (Benjamin E. Mays), 2, 5, 7, 8. 11, 14, 15, 37, 64, 75, 80, 94, 108, 124, 132, 138, 150, 172, 195, 202, 220, 241, 254, 258, 260, 269, 277, 281, 282, 283, 298–300 Boston, Mass., 1, 49, 53, 54, 58, 59, 73, 74, 76 Bowers, J. W., 28 Brick House School, Rambo, S.C., 35, 36, 39, 42, 45 Briggs v. Elliott, 245, 246 Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 75, 76, 152 Brown, H. Rap (Hubert Gerold), 263 Brown, William Oscar “Bill,” 116–18, 125, 126, 145–47, 252 Brown University, 86, 87, 98, 176, 210, 224, 304 Brown v. Board of Education, 245–47 Brutus, 65 Bryan, Williams Jennings, 66 Bucknell University, 161 Buddhism, 153 Bullock, Ralph, 126, 128, 143 Burton, Julia Gray, 122 Burton, Orville Vernon, 295, 300, 305, 306 Butler Street YMCA, Atlanta, 286, 289 Byrnes, James F., 245 Callaway, Fuller E., 280 Camp Stuart, Virginia, 57 Candler School of Theology, Emory University, 249 Carleton College, 161 Carlyle, Thomas, 104, 156, 157 Carmichael, Stokely, 263 Carnegie, Andrew, 100, 215 Carnegie Building, Howard University, 186–89, 203 Carnegie Foundation, 221, 269...