By Sean Yoes AFRO Senior Reporter syoes@afro.com Benjamin Mays, who Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. described as his “spiritual mentor and intellectual father,” was born and came of age in an era of this country known as the “Nadir of American race relations.” The period from 1877, at the end of Reconstruction to 1923, was […]
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