Born to Rebel: An Autobiography

by Benjamin E. Mays, Orville Vernon Burton (Foreword by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780820325231
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Publication date:	04/14/2003
Series:	Brown Thrasher Books Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

BENJAMIN E. MAYS (1894-1984) was educated at Bates College and the University of Chicago. He was a dean at Howard University, president of Morehouse College, and president of the Atlanta School Board. His books include The Negro's Church and Disturbed about Man.

ORVILLE VERNON BURTON is Creativity Professor of Humanities at Clemson University. He is emeritus University Distinguished Teacher-Scholar, University Scholar, and professor of history, African American studies, and sociology at the University of Illinois and is the author or editor of twenty books including The Age of Lincoln.

BENJAMIN E. MAYS (1894-1984) was educated at Bates College and the University of Chicago. He was a dean at Howard University, president of Morehouse College, and president of the Atlanta School Board. His books include The Negro's Church and Disturbed about Man.

Editorial Reviews

A noble book, a pragmatic and useful one.

Christian Science Monitor

Mays's account of the lot of Negroes during his youth—and during most of his adult life, too—is a factual recital and a terrible indictment.

New Yorker

Mays's life exemplifies a tradition of excellence.

New York Review of Books

Mays's account of the lot of Negroes during his youth—and during most of his adult life, too—is a factual recital and a terrible indictment.

New Yorker

"Mays's life exemplifies a tradition of excellence."--New York Review of Books

"Mays's account of the lot of Negroes during his youth—and during most of his adult life, too—is a factual recital and a terrible indictment."--The New Yorker

"A noble book, a pragmatic and useful one."--Christian Science Monitor

From the Publisher

Mays's life exemplifies a tradition of excellence.

The New York Review of Books

Mays's account of the lot of Negroes during his youth--and during most of his adult life, too--is a factual recital and a terrible indictment.

The New Yorker