Who was Benjamin Mays?

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Weegy: Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays (August 1, 1895 - March 28, 1984) was an American minister, educator, scholar, social activist and the 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 ]

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The Leo Frank case was a controversial early 20th-century legal case in which Leo Frank, a Jewish factory manager in Atlanta, was convicted of the murder of a young female employee, leading to widespread media attention, anti-Semitic sentiment, and his eventual lynching.

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Ellis Arnall was a progressive Governor of Georgia from 1943 to 1947, known for his reforms in education, prison system, and state government, and for ending the poll tax and lowering the voting age.

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