Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography
- ISBN-10
- 0807835366
- ISBN-13
- 9780807835364
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 327
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Univ of North Carolina Press
- Author
- Randal Maurice Jelks
Description
In this first full-length biography of Benjamin Mays (1894-1984), Randal Maurice Jelks chronicles the life of the man Martin Luther King Jr. called his "spiritual and intellectual father." Dean of the Howard University School of Religion, president of Mor
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