Mentor Monday: Dr. Benjamin Mays and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Behind every successful person, there’s a mentor who helped them along the way. Some of the most influential people in history were encouraged to succeed by some of the most well-known people of our time.

 To help celebrate MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership’s 25th Anniversary and 25 years of the youth mentoring movement, they have curated a list of 25 of the most meaningful mentoring relationships in history:

Former Morehouse College President, Dr. Benjamin Mays was an outspoken critic of segregation before the rise of the modern civil rights movement and a mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The two men first met during King’s undergraduate years at Morehouse College, and remained close until King’s death in 1968. Mays's “emphasis on two ideas in particular—the dignity of all human beings and the incompatibility of American democratic ideals with American social practices—became vital strains in King's language and in the civil rights movement.” 

from Mentoring.org.