Description
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.
Image
Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
Record Contributed By
New Georgia EncyclopediaRecord Harvested From
Digital Library of GeorgiaKeywords
- African American Civil Rights Workers
- African American College Administrators
- African American Educators
- African American Men
- African Americans
- Atlanta
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Workers
- College Presidents
- Educators
- Eyeglasses
- Georgia
- Mays, Benjamin E. (Benjamin Elijah), 1894 1984
- Men
- Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Windows