![]() ![]() He wrote over twenty books, including Jesus and the Disinherited, his most famous. He worked as dean of the cathedral at both Howard and Boston Universities. ![]() What, specifically, did Thurman do then? In the 1940s, well before civil rights protests became common, Thurman led an interracial fellowship in San Francisco and proved that racial harmony and life together could be done. He laid the groundwork for the dismantling of Jim Crow and the foundations of a better American society. Thurman was known as “the mentor to the movement” and mentored dozens of civil rights’ leaders, including Martin Luther King. However, more people should be, and Harvey writes this religious biography to bring his name to the fore. Howard Thurman is a name that scholars of twentieth-century Christianity and African-American culture know well, but few in the mainstream United States are familiar with it. ![]()
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