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 spoke Tuesday at the Benjamin E. Mays Historic Preservation Site at Mays' childhood home in the Epworth community. Young said that without Mays, there would be no Martin Luther King Jr. and no Andrew Young.

Born in 1894, Mays left segregated South Carolina to pursue his education. He served 27 years as president of Morehouse College starting in 1940. King graduated from Morehouse in 1948 and called Mays his intellectual father.

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