Contributor(s): Mays, Benjamin E (Author), Burton, Orville Vernon (Foreword by)
ISBN: 0820325236 EAN: 9780820325231
Publisher: University of Georgia Press (View Publisher's Titles)
US SRP: $ 24.95 US
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: April 14, 2003
Publisher Marketing: 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.