Born to Rebel
Download or Read eBook Born to Rebel PDF written by Benjamin E. Mays and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Benjamin E. Mays |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2011-07-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780820342276 |
ISBN-13 | : 0820342270 |
Rating | : 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Born to Rebel by : Benjamin E. Mays
Book excerpt: 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.