Born to Rebel An Autobiography

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 Rebelis the moving chronicle of his life, a story that interlaces achievement with the rebuke he continually confronted.Mays, Benjamin E. is the author of 'Born to Rebel An Autobiography' with ISBN 9780820325231 and ISBN 0820325236.