Benjamin Mays’ living legacy

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Sunday March 10, 2013 1:03 pm	Benjamin Mays’ living legacy Mays ’20, the great civil rights leader, never forgot Bates. And it works both ways.
Monday October 29, 2012 5:00 pm	‘Questions Worth Asking’ — President Clayton Spencer’s inaugural address President Spencer tells an inauguration story familiar in its broad outlines but revealing in its particulars.
Friday October 26, 2012 4:00 pm	‘The embodiment of Bates values,’ Spencer is installed as president Bates formally installed Ava Clayton Spencer, described by her former boss as the “embodiment of Bates values,” as its eighth president before a gathering of 2,500 on Friday afternoon.
Wednesday February 3, 2010 2:44 pm	MLK Day: A unique weekend of thought and reflection Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Bates College is an intense, community-wide opportunity to discuss, teach and reflect on King’s…
Friday January 22, 2010 1:01 pm	King Day keynote looks at Mays '20 and his hopes for integrated church “Can we keep the faith when our dreams are imperfectly realized? I hope that we can.” Monday was an especially fitting day for this question posed by historian Barbara Savage as she concluded her keynote speech for Bates’ Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances.
Thursday April 2, 2009 11:35 am	Pulitzer-winning novelist Diaz speaks in Multicultural Center event Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Junot Díaz welcomed to campus.
Sunday May 11, 2008 11:49 am	Work, Truly Our Own Among workshops that Bates held on Jan. 21 to honor Martin Luther King Jr., one stood out by virtue of its subject: Bates itself.
Wednesday December 22, 2004 12:55 pm	MLK Day events highlight legacy of labor, justice, and dignity The Rev. John Mendez, pastor of the Emmanuel Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, N.C., and the Winston-Salem Chronicle’s 1994 Man of the Year, is the keynote speaker for the 2005 Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances at Bates College.
Monday December 17, 2001 1:14 pm	Bates visiting professorship honors human rights leader Bates College has received a $1 million gift and pledge from the Orr Family Foundation, founded by trustee James F. Orr III, to support a distinguished visiting professorship in honor of human rights advocate Benjamin E. Mays, a 1920 Bates graduate who influenced a generation of civil rights leaders.
Thursday March 1, 2001 3:06 pm	Presidential Medal of Freedom for Benjamin Mays '20? Georgia senators Max Cleland and Zell Miller recently announced plans to introduce a U.S. Senate resolution urging President Bush to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the late Benjamin Mays ’20.

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Mays ’20, the great civil rights leader, never forgot Bates. And it works both ways.

‘Questions Worth Asking’ — President Clayton Spencer’s inaugural address

President Spencer tells an inauguration story familiar in its broad outlines but revealing in its particulars.

‘The embodiment of Bates values,’ Spencer is installed as president

Bates formally installed Ava Clayton Spencer, described by her former boss as the “embodiment of Bates values,” as its eighth president before a gathering of 2,500 on Friday afternoon.

MLK Day: A unique weekend of thought and reflection

Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Bates College is an intense, community-wide opportunity to discuss, teach and reflect on King’s…

King Day keynote looks at Mays '20 and his hopes for integrated church

“Can we keep the faith when our dreams are imperfectly realized? I hope that we can.”

Monday was an especially fitting day for this question posed by historian Barbara Savage as she concluded her keynote speech for Bates’ Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances.

Pulitzer-winning novelist Diaz speaks in Multicultural Center event

Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Junot Díaz welcomed to campus.

Work, Truly Our Own

Among workshops that Bates held on Jan. 21 to honor Martin Luther King Jr., one stood out by virtue of its subject: Bates itself.

MLK Day events highlight legacy of labor, justice, and dignity

The Rev. John Mendez, pastor of the Emmanuel Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, N.C., and the Winston-Salem Chronicle’s 1994 Man of the Year, is the keynote speaker for the 2005 Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances at Bates College.

Monday

December 17, 2001
1:14 pm

Bates visiting professorship honors human rights leader

Bates College has received a $1 million gift and pledge from the Orr Family Foundation, founded by trustee James F. Orr III, to support a distinguished visiting professorship in honor of human rights advocate Benjamin E. Mays, a 1920 Bates graduate who influenced a generation of civil rights leaders.

Thursday

March 1, 2001
3:06 pm

Presidential Medal of Freedom for Benjamin Mays '20?

Georgia senators Max Cleland and Zell Miller recently announced plans to introduce a U.S. Senate resolution urging President Bush to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the late Benjamin Mays ’20.