{"id":135163,"date":"2019-01-21T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=135163"},"modified":"2020-08-19T10:04:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T14:04:14","slug":"the-rev-dr-benjamin-elijah-mays-class-of-1920-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2019\/01\/21\/the-rev-dr-benjamin-elijah-mays-class-of-1920-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rev. Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays, Class of 1920, Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This ever-popular contest between Morehouse College and Bates students honors Dr. Mays, a Bates debater, longtime president of Morehouse, pioneer of the civil rights movement, and primary mentor to Martin Luther King Jr. This year\u2019s motion: \u201cThis House believes that social justice movements should prioritize socioeconomic class over race and gender.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fbatescollege%2Fvideos%2F362910274542738%2F&#038;show_text=1&#038;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"550\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This ever-popular contest between Morehouse College and Bates students honors Dr. Mays,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":135168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[12193],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-livestream"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135169,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135163\/revisions\/135169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}