| Born to Rebel: An Autobiography Revised Edition Contributor(s): Mays, Benjamin E. (Author), Burton, Orville Vernon (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0820325236 ISBN-13: 9780820325231 Publisher: University of Georgia Press OUR PRICE: $35.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2003 Annotation: 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 black president of the Atlanta School Board. Born to Rebel is the moving chronicle of his life, a story that interlaces achievement with the rebuke he continually confronted. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Educators |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2002043576 |
| Series: Brown Thrasher Books |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6" W x 9" (1.50 lbs) 464 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - South - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mays, Benjamin E.: - 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.Burton, Orville Vernon: - 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. |