civil rights movement
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Meet Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Civil Rights Movement
On April 9, 1968, Benjamin Elijah Mays had the burdensome honor of delivering a eulogy for Martin Luther King Jr. on the campus of Morehouse …
By Randal Maurice Jelks![](https://religionandpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/AP640823044-584-x-380-257x208.jpg)
The States Project
Mississippi: A Historian Challenges H.L. Mencken
A Historian Challenges H.L. Mencken.
By Alison Collis Greene![](https://religionandpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/0806-Watt-AlabamaHB56-257x208.jpg)
The States Project
Alabama: A Son of the South Returns to the Heart of Dixie
A Son of the South Returns to the Heart of Dixie.
By David H. Watt![](https://religionandpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/0607-Savage-BlackChurch-584x380-257x208.jpg)
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The Myth of the Black Church
My earliest ideas about African American religion and political struggle come from my first public memories as a child of the South of the late 1950s and 1960s.
By Barbara Dianne Savage