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How did Benjamin Mays contribute to the civil rights movement?

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He presided over the Atlanta Board of Education from 1969 to 1978, where he initiated the racial desegregation of Atlanta. Mays' contributions to the civil rights movement have had him credited as the "movement's intellectual conscience" or alternatively the "Dean [or Schoolmaster] of the Movement".

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