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Acknowledgments As in all projects that take more than ten years, there is no way to acknowledge adequately the many people who have helped me along this path. Some who have helped me, however, must go in this space. For teaching me about race relations and other things southern: Joel Williamson ; George Tindall; Joseph A. Herzenberg, Jr.; Frank Ryan; Edward Beardsley; Tom Terrill; Robert Weir; Jacquelyn Dowd Hall; C. Vann Woodward ; Paul Green; Glenn W. Rainey; Ronald McInnis; and the martyred Reverend William McNeill. For teaching me about things theological and about the lives of ministers: the Reverend James W. Dawsey, the Reverend Craig Wylie, Bishop Neff Powell , Bishop Heath Light, Bishop Peter Lee, the Reverend Hopkins Weston, the Reverend Tom Carson, the Reverend James Rogers, the Reverend John Miller, the Reverend Alex Barron, and the Reverend Tommy Tipton. For persuading me to take on this project and for encouraging me along the long way: Malcolm Call and Nancy Grayson. For resuming the project, rethinking and redirecting it, and riding it through to its end: Alexander Moore and Karen Rood. For preparing the index: Kyle Roper. For help from their research work in related fields: Orville Vernon Burton, John T. Morgan, Charles W. Joyner, Dennis Dickerson, Charles W. Eagles, Ralph Luker, and the two anonymous referees who reviewed the manuscript for the University of South Carolina Press. For opening up the treasure trove of Mays’s papers and those of other leaders : the wonderful staff of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center of the Founders Library of Howard University, especially Dr. Joellen El-Bashir, archivist extraordinaire. For reading the many versions of this biography and helping me with concepts , facts, and stylistic questions: Ava Yates Gilmer, Mary Elizabeth Marshall, Ashley Haines, and John H. Roper, Jr. For preparing the typescript and settling many questions of style and presentation : Joyce Wentz. For helping me with collecting data and finding sources: Jane Caldwell and Patty Greany, reference librarians without whom I am quite helpless; Lorraine xiv Acknowledgments Abraham, Jody Hanshew, Robert Vejnar, Whitney Mullins, Dick Shrader, John White, Tim West, Rachel Canada, Harry McKown, and Janet Kirby. For finding grant money and for encouraging me: Emory & Henry College , especially Deans James Dawsey and Chris Qualls and Social Science Division chair John T. Morgan. And most important, for bringing me into the civil rights movement and for reminding me always about truth and reality: my wife, Rita Bowers Roper. 8.220.154.41] Project MUSE (2024-04-24 18:58 GMT) The Magnificent Mays This page intentionally left blank ...

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