United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.387981894/1984Benjamin Mays speaks with Atlanta mayor Ivan Allen Jr.Photograph of Benjamin Mays speaking with Atlanta, Georgia mayor Ivan Allen Jr. Both men wear tuxedos; Allen's suit is black, and Mays' tuxedo is white. Mays is perhaps best known as the longtime president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. He was also a significant mentor to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and was among the most articulate and outspoken critics of segregation before the rise of the modern civil rights movement in the United States.image/jpeghttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/education/benjamin-mays-ca-1894-1984Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/education/benjamin-mays-ca-1894-1984Forms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaCivil rights workers--Georgia--AtlantaAfrican American civil rights workers--Georgia--AtlantaCollege presidents--Georgia--AtlantaAfrican American college administrators--Georgia--AtlantaMayors--Georgia--AtlantaMen--Georgia--AtlantaAfrican American men--Georgia--AtlantaMorehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.)Benjamin MaysStillImage