GREENWOOD, S.C. (AP) -- A museum dedicated to the life of a Greenwood native often referred to as the father of the civil rights movement is opening.
Former U.N. ambassador and Atlanta mayor Andrew Young will speak Tuesday at the Benjamin E. Mays Historic Preservation Site at Mays' childhood home in the Epworth community. A film on Mays' life will be shown at the Greenwood Community Theater and there will be replays of two of Mays' inspirational speeches.
The Index-Journal of Greenwood reports that site curator Loy Sartin has spent more than a year collecting and cataloguing material and artifacts.
Born in 1894, Mays left segregated South Carolina to pursue his education. He served 27 years as president of Morehouse College starting in 1940. Martin Luther King Jr. called Mays his intellectual father.
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