![]() ![]() ![]() Howard Washington Thurman was born on Novemin Daytona Beach, Florida, the grandson of slaves he graduated from Morehouse College in 1923. His writing and his sermons reveal a deep contemplative sensibility, grounded in the encounter with the God who is Love that informed his commitment to social justice and nonviolence. Over a long ministry, which included serving as dean of the chapel at Howard University and Boston University, he became renowned not only as a gifted preacher but also a prolific author of more than twenty-eight books. He is also the most widely recognized, and universally celebrated, of African-American mystics. ![]() Howard Thurman is remembered first and foremost as a mentor to Martin Luther King Jr., but he is also widely regarded as one of the greatest African American spiritual leaders of the twentieth century. ![]()
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