{"product_id":"born-to-rebel-an-autobiography-9780820325231","title":"Born to Rebel: An Autobiography","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. \u003ci\u003eBorn to Rebel\u003c\/i\u003e is the moving chronicle of his life, a story that interlaces achievement with the rebuke he continually confronted.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBENJAMIN 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Negro's Church\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDisturbed about Man\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50328904433938,"sku":"9780820325231","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_67aa98df-f050-4dc1-a259-bcf77cfc7332.jpg?v=1727754326","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/born-to-rebel-an-autobiography-9780820325231","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}