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Photograph of Benjamin Mays. He rests his chin on his left hand. He holds his eyeglasses.Mays was the president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia from 1940 until his retirement in 1967. He was also a significant mentor to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and was among the most articulate and outspoken critics of segregation before the rise of the modern civil rights movement in the United States.
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  1. African American Civil Rights Workers
  2. African American College Administrators
  3. African American Educators
  4. African American Men
  5. African Americans
  6. Atlanta
  7. Civil Rights
  8. Civil Rights Workers
  9. College Presidents
  10. Educators
  11. Eyeglasses
  12. Georgia
  13. Mays, Benjamin E. (Benjamin Elijah), 1894 1984
  14. Men
  15. Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.)
  16. Windows

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