Sadie Gray Mays

Sadie Gray Mays
Sadie Gray Mays, from a 1924 publication.
Sadie Gray Mays, from a 1924 publication.
Born
Sadie M. Gray

August 5, 1900
Gray, Jones County, Georgia
DiedOctober 10 1969
Atlanta, Georgia
NationalityAmerican
Occupationsocial worker
Years active1930s-1960s
Known forSadie G. Mays Health and Rehabilitation Center in Atlanta

Sadie Gray Mays (August 5, 1900 – October 10, 1969) was an African-American social worker, trained at the University of Chicago. As the wife of Benjamin Mays, she was also a prominent Baptist minister's wife, a college president's wife (at Morehouse College, from 1940 to 1967), and a civil rights activist.