Statue Unveiling Ceremony of Benjamin Mays '20 | Bates College

Описание: Watch as one of Bates' most esteemed-alumni and civil rights icon, Benjamin Mays, Bates Class of 1920, is honored with a statue unveiling in his hometown of Greenwood, S.C.
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Designed and created by Jon Hair, the statue was unveiled Nov. 4 at the Dr. Benjamin E. Mays Historical Preservation Site, located a few miles from Epworth, where Mays was born in 1894.

Mays, a 1920 Bates graduate, became a celebrated theologian, civil rights leader, and president of Morehouse College.

He was known as “the schoolmaster of the movement” for "inspiring generations of African American students and clergy to develop their intellectual talents and calibrate their ethical compass in order to challenge injustice," wrote biographer Randal Maurice Jelks. One of Mays’ students at Morehouse was Martin Luther King Jr., who called Mays “my spiritual mentor and my intellectual father.”

The Rev. Otis Moss, a Mays protege, delivered the keynote address at the unveiling.

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