Stories about "Benjamin Mays"
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Recalling the late Henry Aaron’s friendship with Benjamin Mays
Friday, January 22, 2021 4:27 pm
It is said that Henry Aaron's friendship with Benjamin Mays made him him want to be more than just a baseball player."
![Just July. Or as Professor of French and Francophone Studies Kirk Read says: “We are in that month we wish could last forever.”Hathorn Hall and Historic Quad](https://www.bates.edu/news/files/2020/05/190716_Campus_0164-400x267.jpg)
Transformative: The Bates Mission Statement at age 10
Thursday, May 28, 2020 1:09 pm
Even as COVID-19 puts it to the test, the 2010 mission statement is a cultural touchstone for Bates.
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Bates in the News: Oct. 25, 2019
Friday, October 25, 2019 10:51 am
Recalling Elijah Cummings and Benjamin Mays, a friendship between American and Chinese artists, and a math professor explains her favorite theorem.
![9:45–10:45am50th Reunion Seminar: The Emancipated Life: Benjamin Mays, Bates College, and the Practice of Freedom Benjamin Elijah Mays, Class of 1920, is remembered for his outstanding leadership and service as a teacher, preacher, mentor, scholar, author, and activist in the civil rights movement. Professor Charles Nero, Benjamin E. Mays ’20 Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies, will help us understand how Dr. Mays — and the role he played as a civil rights leader — was shaped by his Bates education.Pettengill Hall, Keck Classroom (G52)](https://www.bates.edu/news/files/2019/06/190607_50th_Reunion_Seminar_May_Nero_0518-400x267.jpg)
What emancipation meant to Benjamin Mays, and what it means now
Friday, June 14, 2019 9:21 am
At a Reunion seminar, rhetoric professor Charles Nero explains how Benjamin Mays used religion, gender, and citizenship to reject white supremacy and claim emancipation.
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Recalling when Bates fought, yet benefited from, a racist debate organization
Thursday, February 28, 2019 3:33 pm
Fraught and frustrating efforts by Bates to get the national Delta Sigma Rho debate society to admit black members reveals a stark conflict between Bates’ ideals and the reality in which it operated.
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Meet six alumni from Bates history as Black History Month concludes
Friday, March 2, 2018 11:36 am
Meet African American alumni Henry Chandler, Stella James, Benjamin Mays, John Davis, William Worthy, and Peter Gomes.
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Mays Medal to Ed O’Neil ’82 highlights alumni awards at Reunion 2017
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 1:10 pm
O'Neil has literally written the book on sustainable and efficient solutions to the problems of global health inequity.
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Q&A: Marcus Bruce ’77 on Benjamin Mays, MLK, and the ongoing struggle for emancipation
Friday, January 6, 2017 12:50 pm
Bruce, the college's Benjamin Mays Professor, explains why Mays — Class of 1920, great 20th-century civil rights leader, and mentor to Martin Luther King Jr. — offers hope for "a new birth of freedom."
![In 1980, at age 85, Benjamin Elijah Mays ’20 returns to campus for his 60th Reunion.Photograph by Jim Daniels](https://www.bates.edu/news/files/2013/03/E1-Mays-c-e1364410889701-300x257.jpg)
Benjamin Mays’ living legacy
Sunday, March 10, 2013 1:03 pm
Mays ’20, the great civil rights leader, never forgot Bates. And it works both ways.
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‘Questions Worth Asking’ — President Clayton Spencer’s inaugural address
Monday, October 29, 2012 5:00 pm
President Spencer tells an inauguration story familiar in its broad outlines but revealing in its particulars.