On March 17, 1997, the Board of Trustees of The City University of New York approved the naming of the Library at Medgar Evers College, the Charles Evans Inniss Memorial Library.

Charles Evans Inniss devoted his life to community, social, and educational concerns. He was an outstanding public servant, a member of the Board of Trustees of The City University of New York, and Chair of The City University Construction Fund. A devoted advocate of the need to provide an opportunity for higher education to all New Yorkers, particularly the disadvantaged, Trustee Inniss was a devoted friend of Medgar Evers College. Moreover, he was the personification of the philosophy, mission, and vision of both Medgar Evers College and The City University of New York. His staunch support of the College, which was well known, inspired his colleagues at Brooklyn Union Gas Company to establish a scholarship at the College in his memory. The College Council of Medgar Evers College, voted unanimously on March 17, 1997, to name the College Library in his honor; therefore, it is altogether fitting that the Medgar Evers College Library be known hereafter as the Charles Evans Inniss Memorial Library.

Board of Trustees Minutes of Proceedings, January 26, 1998

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