Lewiston's best restaurant refused to serve Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'spiritual mentor'

Fearing a racist response from other diners in 1945, the DeWitt Hotel refused to allow Benjamin Mays, a prominent Bates College graduate who had come to speak in the city, to eat in its public dining room.

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