On this day, Howard Thurman was born in Daytona Beach, Florida. A theologian, philosopher, and civil rights leader, Thurman became one of the most influential religious thinkers of the 20th century. He was the first Black person to hold a full-time faculty position at a predominantly white American university (Boston University, in 1953).
Thurman was a mentor to many civil rights leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and his book “Jesus and the Disinherited” profoundly shaped the spiritual foundation of the nonviolent movement for social justice.
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