Benjamin Mays ’20 and the Rev. Martin Luther King promised each other: He who outlived the other would deliver his friend’s last eulogy. On April 9, 1968, Mays made good on the promise. Benjamin Mays ...

Benjamin Elijah Mays was born in South Carolina in 1894 to former slaves. The youngest of eight children, he grew up in a segregated, Jim Crow society (Mays first earned the right to vote in 1945 when ...

Named in honor of Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, mentor to Martin Luther King, Jr., the MMUF was established in 1988 to reduce the underrepresentation of minorities with faculty rank with higher education ...