Biography Focuses on the Intellectual Force Behind the Civil Rights Movement

University of Kansas professor of History Randal Maurice Jelks is the author of “Benjamin Elijah Mays–Schoolmaster of the Movement, A Biography” (UNC Press, 2012), a detailed and thorough examination of the intellectual and theological beliefs espoused by one of the leaders of the  modern Civil Rights movement in America.  Here, the author talks with WABE’s Steve Goss…