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Benjamin May Research Paper

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In Benjamin Mays lifetime he has done many things that have made him a great leader or idle. Benjamin started as a boy in South Carolina with two parents that used to be slaves then tenant farmers. Benjamin Mays was born in 1895 in rural impoverish South Carolina. Both parents were former slaves turned to tenant farmers. He was the youngest out of eight children. A consistent theme in May’s boyhood and early adulthood was his quest for education against overwhelming odds. He refused to be limited by wide spread of poverty and racism. After some struggle he gained acceptance into Bates College in Maine. Later completing his B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) in 1920. When he got his B.A. May entered the University of Chicago as a graduate student earning

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