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Mays and Joseph Nicholson published a study entitled The Negro's Church, the first sociological study of the black church in the United States. Mays sought to be Christian relations. Mays also was a student secretary at the YMCA. Molefi Kete Asante listed Benjamin Mays on his list of 100 greatest African Americans when Mays died.
Benjamin Mays fought for freedom and that whites would be kinder to blacks. Benjamin Mays would pray for people to be nice to blacks, this is how much he cared about this. Martin Luther King Jr. described Mays as a intellectual father. Benjamin Mays was born into freedom which means no one told him where to eat or where to shop Benjamin Mays was allowed to go where he wanted.
Benjamin Mays lived a wonderful life. Mays had a wife named Ellen Harvin. When his wife died she was entombed at Atlanta's Morehouse College when Mays died he was entombed with his wife. Benjamin Mays had a few kids, Mays fought for freedom not only for strangers but for his kids too.
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