Howard Thurman
“The Godfather of the Civil Rights Movement”
Howard Thurman (November 18, 1899 – April 10, 1981) was an influential African American author, philosopher, theologian, educator and civil rights leader. He was Dean of Chapel at Howard University and Boston University for more than two decades, wrote 21 books. In 1944 he cofounded the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples in San Francisco, California, the first inter-racially church in America.
Check our review of Thurman’s biography What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman by Lerita Coleman Brown (Broadleaf Books, Feb 07, 2023)
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