IN PRAISE OF BENNIE MAYS, SCHOOLMASTER OF THE MOVEMENT

RANDAL MAURICE JELKS' BIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN ELIJAH MAYS IS OUTSTANDING! IT RAISES PERPENDICULARS IN MY SPIRIT! OUR PEOPLE'S SPIRITUAL AND CIVIC CONSCIOUSNESS EVOLVES IN TANDEM WITH THEIR EDUCATION ATTAINMENTS, AS ILLUSTRATED THROUGH SUCH PERSONS AS BENNIE MAYS, HOWARD THURMAN, AND MORDECAI WYATT JOHNSON, ALL OF WHOM CONVERGED AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY IN THE SEMINAL 1930'S, LATER POLLINATING THE PLANET!