Benjamin+E.+Mays

During the third decade of his presidency of Morehouse College, Benjamin E. Mays played an important role in the integration of Atlanta by helping students organize sit-ins at lunch counters and other segregated facilities. He later held a prominent position on the Atlanta Board of Education were he helped to peacefully desegregate the school system. This link provides access to 4 articles on Mays []

 Mays birthplace located in Epworth, South Carolina [] 

Mays' tomb in front of Graves Hall on [|Morehouse College's] campus green.

Links to youtube video of interview with Dr. Mays [] [] [] [] [] []

Autobiography of Dr. Mays []

Jr. Political scientist Freddie Colston presents a collection of the speeches, commencement addresses, sermons, and eulogies of Mays, in which he comments on race relations and the state of education in the United States. []