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Books by Benjamin E.
Mays
Born to Rebel: An Autobiography /
Disturbed about Man /
The Negro's God, As Reflected in His Literature
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Dr.
Benjamin E. Mays Speaks
Representative Speeches of a Great
American Orator
Edited by Freddie C. Colston Contents
Foreword
Benjamin E. Mays: An African
American Spokesperson as an Agent of Political Socialization by
Hanes Walton, Jr.
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| Preface |
xiii |
| Acknowledgements |
xvii |
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| Chapter 1 Introduction |
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| Chapter 2 General Audiences |
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| Radio Address
on the Seventy-Eighth Anniversary of Morehouse College |
29 |
| The Liberal
Arts College in an Atomic Age |
32 |
| Why an Atlanta
School Suit? |
39 |
| Our Colleges
and the Supreme Court Decision |
44 |
| The
Inauguration of President William H. Dennis, Jr. |
50 |
| The Moral
Aspects of Segregation |
60 |
| Carolina
Symposium on Public Affairs |
67 |
| The Unlimited
Task |
73 |
| The Advantages
of a Small, Christian, Private, Liberal Arts College |
84 |
| Desegregation:
An Opportunity and a Challenge |
92 |
| An Impossible
Dream Comes True |
99 |
| Martin Luther
King, Jr. |
103 |
| Jimmy Carter |
110 |
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| Chapter 3 Commencement Addresses |
139 |
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| The Paradox of
Life |
139 |
| The Challenge
to Overcome the Major Disabilities of 341 Years in a Quarter of a
Century |
145 |
| A Crisis and a
Challenge |
155 |
| Twenty-Seven
Years of Success and Failure at Morehouse |
163 |
| The
Universities' Unfinished Work |
175 |
| The Challenge
of the Seventies |
182 |
| Three Enemies
of Mankind: A Challenge to the University |
189 |
| Education to
What End? |
195 |
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| Chapter 4 Sermons |
203 |
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| Except a Man be
Born Again, he Cannot See the Kingdom of Heaven |
203 |
| His Goodness
Was Not Enough |
207 |
| The Church
Amidst Ethnic and Racial Tensions |
213 |
| Why Jesus
Called the Rich Man a Fool |
224 |
| The Vocation of
a Christian--In, But Not of, the World |
229 |
| In What Shall
We Glory? |
234 |
| Why Should We
Forgive? |
240 |
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| Chapter 5 Eulogies |
247 |
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| Eulogy of Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
247 |
| Eulogy of Dr.
Whitney Young, Jr. |
254 |
| Eulogy of Dr.
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson |
258 |
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| Postscript |
265 |
| Bibliography |
269 |
| Index |
273 |
| About the Author |
293 |
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| Source:
Dr.
Benjamin E. Mays Speaks |
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Freddie C. Colston has published articles on
politics and the black experience in professional journals. he
was a student at Morehouse College during the presidency of Dr.
Mays where he received his B.A. in political science in 1959. He
received an M.A. from Atlanta University in 1966 and a Ph.D. in
1972 from Ohio State University; both graduate degrees are in
political science. He has done extensive research on the life
and career of Dr. Mays since 1984. The author has taught
political science at Fort Valley State university, Southern
University, University of Detroit, Dillard University, Tennessee
State University, North Carolina Central University, and Georgia
Southwestern State University. In addition to his academic
appointments, Professor Colston served a stint at the Executive
Seminar Center, U.S. Office of Personnel Management, in Oak
Ridge, Tennessee, where he resides. |
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years
By David Graeber
Before there was money, there was debt. Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems—to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There’s not a shred of evidence to support it. Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom. He shows that for more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods—that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors. Graeber shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Italy to China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religion (words like “guilt,” “sin,” and “redemption”) derive in large part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong. We are still fighting these battles today without knowing it. Debt: The First 5,000 Years is a fascinating chronicle of this little known history—as well as how it has defined human history, and what it means for the credit crisis of the present day and the future of our economy. Economist Glenn Loury /Criminalizing a Race
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The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness
By Michele Alexander
Contrary to the
rosy picture of race embodied in Barack
Obama's political success and Oprah
Winfrey's financial success, legal
scholar Alexander argues vigorously and
persuasively that [w]e have not ended
racial caste in America; we have merely
redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial
segregation has been replaced by mass
incarceration as a system of social
control (More African Americans are
under correctional control today... than
were enslaved in 1850). Alexander
reviews American racial history from the
colonies to the Clinton administration,
delineating its transformation into the
war on drugs. She offers an acute
analysis of the effect of this mass
incarceration upon former inmates who
will be discriminated against, legally,
for the rest of their lives, denied
employment, housing, education, and
public benefits. Most provocatively, she
reveals how both the move toward
colorblindness and affirmative action
may blur our vision of injustice: most
Americans know and don't know the truth
about mass incarceration—but her
carefully researched, deeply engaging,
and thoroughly readable book should
change that.—Publishers
Weekly |
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update 24 November 2011
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