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Housing

Mays House

Inside Mays House
Outside Mays House

Benjamin E. Mays House is located on the main campus and conveniently connected to Chivers Dining Hall. With spacious lounge areas and easy access to campus resources, students enjoy this safe, warm, and engaging residential community. Mays Hall is an excellent option to call home for upper-level students who want to continue their on-campus residential experience.

Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays

The iconic Morehouse College president Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays was one of the greatest forces in education and social activism in the twentieth century who many credit with planting the intellectual roots of the modern civil rights movement through his writings, speeches against segregation, and influence on his students. Martin Luther King, Jr. often referred to President Mays as his "spiritual mentor", and Mays delivered King's eulogy after his death during a memorial ceremony on the Morehouse campus. Dr. Mays gave the benediction at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. He has received over 50 honorary degrees. Before coming to Morehouse, he also served as dean of the Howard University School of Religion. Mays was a prolific international speaker and served as an advisor to Presidents Kenney, Johnson, Truman, and Carter.

Mays serveds as Morehouse College president for 27 years. Before coming to Morehouse, Mays served as dean of the Howard University School of Religion. After retiring as president of Morehouse, Mays served as the first Black president of the Atlanta Public Schools board of education and led the integration of the public schools. Scores of streets, monuments, and educational institutions are named in his honor, including Atlanta's Benjamin Elijah Mays High School and Howard University's Benjamin Mays Hall.