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This Day in Boston History
November 19th, 1899
Rev. Howard Thurman Born
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Author,
philosopher, theologian, and educator Howard Thurman was born on this
day in Daytona Beach, Florida. Reared by his illiterate grandmother who
was a former slave, he was the first African American child to finish
the eighth grade in the state of Florida.
He graduated from Morehouse College as valedictorian, and was ordained
a Baptist minister. He began the first inter-racial, inter-demonitanational
church in America, and became the first dean of Marsh Chapel at Boston
University.
He was a spiritual advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King who studied at Boston
University. Thurman introduceded King to Gandhi's idea of non-violent
protest, and King carried Thurman's book, "Jesus and the Disinherited"
to read during quiet moments before civil rights marches.
Thurman wrote, "Ultimately there is only one place of refuge on this
planet for any man--that is in another man's heart."
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