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.
Emory Jackson and Benjamin Mays
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