

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: The Rev. Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays Debate
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 19 Jan, 2026 at 04:45 pm – Mon, 19 Jan, 2026 at 05:30 pm
- **Event Description**: DebateAbout this EventPresented by students from Morehouse and Bates colleges, this debate honors the Rev. Dr. Benjamin Mays, a 1920 Bates graduate, prominent debater, longtime Morehouse president, pioneer of the civil rights movement, and important mentor to Martin Luther King Jr.This year’s topic is “Resolved: This House believes that social justice movements should practice a politics of anger.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. offered a complicated assessment of anger’s place in our struggle for social change. King once cautioned in his speech titled, “The Other America,” that “angered expressions” of despair could produce “bitterness in the violent rebellions” of civil rights activists. Yet, King also recognized anger’s positive potential in his 1968 commemoration of Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, expressing that “The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.”
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/lewiston/the-rev-dr-benjamin-elijah-mays-debate/100001975136068149
- **Event Categories**: martin-luther-king-day
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Lewiston
- **state**: ME
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Olin Concert Hall
- **lat**: 44.1068686
- **long**: -70.20573790000003
- **full address**: Olin Concert Hall, 75 Russell Street, Lewiston, United States

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Martin Luther King Jr Planning Committee (https://allevents.in/org/martin-luther-king-jr-planning-committee/27280199)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Mon, 19 Jan, 2026 at 04:45 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Olin Concert Hall, 75 Russell Street, Lewiston, United States
- **Q**: What is the ticket price?
  - **A:** starting from 0 up to 0 USD
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Martin Luther King Jr Planning Committee
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** martin-luther-king-day
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about The Rev. Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays Debate ?
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