Benjamin Elijah Mays: A Pictorial Life and TimesMercer University Press, 2006 - 202 pages As a result of Benjamin Mays's many contributions, he was not only recognized as one of the great minds of the twentieth century, but also let an indelible impact on so many of those he touched. He received 51 honorary degrees, wrote articles for 100 magazines and contributed chapters in 15 books. At the Oxford, Conference on Church; Community, and State held at Oxford University in 1987 and at the state funeral of Pope John XXIII, Rome, in 1963. Dr. Mays represented the United States. He delivered addresses at more than 250 colleges, universities, and schools in the United States and was awarded the Distinguished Educator Award by the United States Offices of Education in 1978. His portrait was unveiled and placed in the South Carolina State House on 12 July 1980. In addition, Dr. Mays gave wisdom and counsel to many more through his sermons, speeches, and community involvement. To chronicle the amazing life and contributions of Mays Carrie Dumas spent several years in research collecting photos and interviewing many of those people whose lives were touched by him. Drawing from numerously archival sources; Duams presents here a photographic biography of one of America's most notable citizens. With more than one hundred images of the life and career of Dr. Mays, this work presents this unique and influential story in vivid detail. While many have read of the life of Dr. Mays, now we can view the images. |
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... religious faith are as precious as they are rare . The deep beauty of his life and pilgrimage is that they are a constant and dramatic reminder of the higher possibilities of human nature , existence , and destiny . Perhaps the cardinal ...
... religious faith are as precious as they are rare . The deep beauty of his life and pilgrimage is that they are a constant and dramatic reminder of the higher possibilities of human nature , existence , and destiny . Perhaps the cardinal ...
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... religion , education , pluralism , and human decency . Dr. Mays was born 1 August 1894 , in rural Epworth , South Carolina , the son of former slaves in the nightmarish post - Reconstruction era , " when hope unborn had died . " 4 For ...
... religion , education , pluralism , and human decency . Dr. Mays was born 1 August 1894 , in rural Epworth , South Carolina , the son of former slaves in the nightmarish post - Reconstruction era , " when hope unborn had died . " 4 For ...
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... religion , confirming earlier predictions by people who knew him . His pursuit , however , was not without pitfalls . Dr. Mays was faced with racism within the university walls , in the classroom , and especially in social gatherings of ...
... religion , confirming earlier predictions by people who knew him . His pursuit , however , was not without pitfalls . Dr. Mays was faced with racism within the university walls , in the classroom , and especially in social gatherings of ...
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... religious woman brought her children together every evening and often in the morning for prayer . Mays's oldest sister , Susie , taught him to read before he started to school . Since he was the only one in his first grade class who ...
... religious woman brought her children together every evening and often in the morning for prayer . Mays's oldest sister , Susie , taught him to read before he started to school . Since he was the only one in his first grade class who ...
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... Religion . Dr. Mays wanted to make the School of Religion outstanding , to elevate it from its stepchild position to a place of respectability at the institution . President Johnson named Mays the second black dean of the School of ...
... Religion . Dr. Mays wanted to make the School of Religion outstanding , to elevate it from its stepchild position to a place of respectability at the institution . President Johnson named Mays the second black dean of the School of ...
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ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS Dr Albert Manley Ann Woodward Archives and Special Atlanta Board Atlanta Journal-Constitution Atlanta University Center Bates College Benjamin E BENJAMIN ELIJAH Born to Rebel campus Carolina State College Carolina State University Carrie Dumas Charles Merrill Christian Courtesy of Howard Courtesy of Morehouse Courtesy of Spelman Dean desegregation Edmund ELIJAH MAYS Dr Emory University faculty Failure at Morehouse Georgia graduates high school Howard University Moorland Howard University Moorland-Spingarn Howard University School Ibid institution interview by Carrie John leader legacy Martin Luther King Maynard Jackson Mays's Mechanical College Merrill Travel Study mind Miss Florence Read Moorland-Spingarn Research Center Morehouse College Archives Morehouse College Bulletin Morehouse students MOREHOUSE YEARS Dr Muskie Archives Negro president of Morehouse Professor RETIREMENT YEARS Dr Rufus Clement Sadie School of Divinity School of Religion sermons South Carolina Special Collections Library Spelman College Archives Spingarn Research Center Thomas Hedley Reynolds University Moorland-Spingarn Research University of Chicago William
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Page 149 - Be strong! We are not here to play — to dream, to drift. We have hard work to do and loads to lift. Shun not the struggle — face it; 'tis God's gift.
Page 161 - It isn'ta calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim, is sin.
Page 161 - It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
Page 150 - Youth is not a time of life— it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of ripe cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life.
Page 8 - One or my dreams came true at Bates. Through competitive experience, I had finally dismissed from my mind for all time the myth of the inferiority of all Negroes and the inherent superiority of all whites — articles of faith to so many in my previous environment.
Page 150 - Fleecy locks and black complexion Cannot forfeit nature's claim; Skin may differ but affection Dwells in black and white the same. And were I so tall as to reach the pole Or to grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul; The mind is the standard of the man.
Page 150 - Were I so tall as to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with a span, I must be measured by my soul, The mind's the standard of the man.
Page 34 - Whatever you do, strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do it any better."- If this advice did not create the "Morehouse Mystique,
Page 3 - ... religious periodicals. He has delivered addresses at more than seventy colleges in the United States. Notable was his "The Crisis in Race Relations: Which Way for the Church and Democracy?" at Vassar College on September 29, 1944. He was an American delegate to the World YMCA conference at Mysore, India, represented the United States at the Oxford Conference on Church, Community, and State, 1937, and at the Youth Conference at Amsterdam, Holland, in 1939.
Page 24 - BD degree to complete his work leading to the MA degree in two years. The first year of such study is devoted almost entirely to religious fields which are related to but lie outside of religious education. The second year is given to intensive study and research within the field of Religious Education itself.