Emory Jackson and Benjamin Mays

Civil rights leaders Emory O. Jackson, left, and Benjamin Mays, president of Morehouse College in Atlanta and a mentor to Martin Luther King Jr. before the modern civil rights movement. Jackson was a voting rights activist and editor of the Birmingham World who founded the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP.

Civil rights journalist Emory Jackson with Benjamin Mays
Courtesy of Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Civil rights journalist Emory Jackson with Benjamin Mays