# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benjamin-mays
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:11:02.353Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/benjamin-mays"
name: "Benjamin Mays"
slug: "benjamin-mays"
description: "Benjamin Elijah Mays was an American Baptist minister and civil rights leader who is credited with laying the intellectual foundations of the American civil rights movement. Mays taught and mentored many influential activists, including Martin Luther King Jr, Julian Bond, Maynard Jackson, and Donn Clendenon, among others. His rhetoric and intellectual pursuits focused on Black self-determination. Mays' commitment to social justice through nonviolence and civil resistance were cultivated from his youth through the lessons imbibed from his parents and eldest sister. The peak of his public influence coincided with his nearly three-decade tenure as the sixth president of Morehouse College, a historically black institution of higher learning, in Atlanta, Georgia."
tagline: "American educator, activist, minister (1894–1984)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Benjamin_Mays_portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1894-08-01"
deathDate: "1984-03-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.74
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.320846666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Mays"
    title: "Benjamin Mays"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "بنيامين مايس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Mays"
    title: "Benjamin Mays"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Mays"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_E._Mays"
    title: "Benjamin E. Mays"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%85%D9%86_%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B3"
    title: "بینجمن میس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q817616"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump