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BENJAMIN ELIJAH MAYS

Dr. Benjamin E. Mays is Dean of the School of Religion of Howard
University, Washington, De Ce

ACADEMIC TRAINING:
State College’ of South Carolina,
Bates College, a oe
Virginia Union University, Richmond,
University of Chicago, Me Ae, Phe De

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Dr. Mays is a Kent Fellow of the National Council on Religion in
Higher Education. 7
Member of Delta Theta Chi, a fraternity of students of high scholar-
s hip in the field of Religion in the University of Chicago.
Member of Delta Sigma Rho, National Forensic Society; Phi Beta Kappa
and Omega Psi Phi.

PUBLICATIONS :

 

Co-author of the Negrots Church"

Contributing authorin A. H. Gordon's book, "Negro Life and History
in South Carolina,"

Articles in The Christian Century, €he Crisis and The Journal of
Negro Education. 3
In September of 1938, another book "The Negro's God," will be off press,

 

 

 

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Dr. Mays served as pastor in Atlanta, Gebrgia, for three years. He
assisted in a church in Chicago while attending the University of
Chicagoe He was a teacher of higher mathematics in Morehouse College
for three years and a professor in the South Carolina State College.
As executive secretary of the Tampa Urb&m League he directed 4 study
relative to Negro Life in Tampa, Florida. While a National Y. Me Ce
A. Student Secretary, Dr. Mays directed a study of the occupational
choices of Negro college students and for two years he directed a
study of the Negro church under the auspices of the Institute of
Social and Religious Research. Dr.°-Ma ys was called to his present
position in 1934,

TRAVEL:

In Ja nuary 1937, Dre-Mays was one of the thirteen Americans to
represent the National Young Men!s Christian Association of America
at the Workd YsMeCeA. Conference which met in Mysore, India.

In July of the same year, Dr. Mays atgended the Oxford Conference on
the Church, Community and State. see

In May, 1938, he represented the National Y.M.C.A. of America at the
Plenary Séssion of the World Committee of the Y.M.C.eA. which met in
Stockholm, Sweden.