Dr. Hayes Benjamin Presentation

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Many presenters that have came to the auditorium to speak to the student have given impressive presentations so far as the quality. Dr. Benjamin Hayes offered an impressive topic but a monotone speech that somehow bored me to dream at points within the speech. Her topic about perserving knowledge through writing was fantastic. I never knew of many scribes that she named, in that, I found this lecture to be very beneficial. She talked about the fifteenth century during the Medieval time period and medieval scribes. She mentioned many but not all of the building on campus that are named after very important people who have contributed paramount history to the university. People who are and are not familiar in name such as: Jesse Moorland, Author Spingarn, Alain Leroy Locke who Locke hall was named after as he serve as the office of deen and graduated from Harvard with a Major in English, Founder of HillTop Magazine and lived a life as a author, poet and writer, Zora Neal Hurston. Dr. Benjamin mentioned Lulu Vere Childers who was the first director of conservative Music, Fredrick Douglas, Ira Aldrige who was a Shakespeare actress and played as Othello and King Lear, Luis C. Crampton, name after the Crampton Auditorium, Harriet Tubman, who was the most courageous women that I know of, freeing over three Hundred salves and is/was called the Moses of her people. Phillis Wheatley, who was born in Gambia and kidnapped at age eight to be enslaved in America. At twelve Phillis was reading the Greek and Latin passages, and became the first African American Women to publish a book. Dr. Benjamin Mentioned Charles R Drew, GW Carver, Ernest Everest Just, and Baldwin.