Born to Rebel
| 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 (270 Downloads) |
Download or read book Born to Rebel 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. 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.
