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ERIC Number: EJ627483
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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ISSN: ISSN-1077-3711
My Statement on the Moral Aspects of Racial Segregation.
Mays, Benjamin E.
Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, n31 p118 Spr 2001
Presents excerpts from a 1955 essay by Benjamin E. Mays, long-time president of Morehouse College, on the meaning of racial segregation and the damage it inflicted. Describes three reasons for legal segregation, explaining why it is immoral and how it has damaged the souls and minds of millions of African Americans who will never be cured of feelings of inferiority. (SM)
Descriptors: Blacks, Moral Values, Racial Bias, Racial Segregation, Social Values
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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