History of the Crim Center — Benjamin E. Mays
Dr. Benjamin E. Mays was the chair and founder of Urban Educational Leadership. An annual conference is held in his name.
“It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.” — Benjamin E. Mays
Benjamin E. Mays
“We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors. We cannot lose in this battle.”
View the lecture from 2018
Keynote speaker was Dr. Walter Farrell. Topic was “Emerging Apartheid in Public Education and the Lives of America’s Ethnic Minorities.”
