Indeed, their ties and commonalities were so close that Thurman (1899-1981), who graduated from Morehouse College a few years ahead of King's father, could be considered King's spiritual godfather. << /Length 5 0 R /Filter /FlateDecode >> (20) Thurman immediately assumed the pastorate at Mount Zion in Oberlin and amassed a following of racially diverse local people and college students, although the church's membership remained black. He married and started a family, and returned to Atlanta, Georgia in 1929 where he joined the faculty of his alma mater and its sister school, Spelman College. The post of Professor of Spiritual Disciplines and Resources in the School of Theology and Dean of Marsh Chapel that Case offered Thurman was a tribute to the intellectual gifts Thurman had consistently demonstrated in academic settings from his graduation as valedictorian of his class at Morehouse in 1923 and his graduate studies at the former Rochester Theological Seminary (Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School), where he again led his class before receiving his ordination as a Baptist minister in 1925.Thurman's accomplishments in the classroom had prompted Dr. Rufus Jones, the eminent Quaker mystic to accede to Thurman's request to study privately with Jones at Haverford College. i~�~r�8zS4��X���D��������,�t�5�����0c�h�'b,{�4E�͊;I���Y��l�P6R�� ðEo�)t�t��'��Ҩ�%�9�&��� ƫht>�4R� ��ѳ=��m����ɢ'���n��PT��D4M�%Cly SYq�h#�DЋ���ߝ��#�jv'x9�F
It extended beyond the seas to Africa, Asia, and Europe, where Thurman's books would be even more widely read than they were here.In the last quarter of the 20th century, the Thurmans' place in the public consciousness, especially in this country, has eroded. He wanted his university, founded by Methodist abolitionists in 1839, to resume its place as a leader on issues of race and social justice in post-World War II America, much as its founders had envisioned for it in antebellum America. For this reason alone, the Thurman's trove deserves the sort of attention represented by this major grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities.As the home of the archives of personal and professional papers for both Howard Thurman and Sue Bailey Thurman, the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center is honored to announce the re-opening of the archival collections to researchers, and the launch of this website dedicated to their legacy. Thus, when he arrived in Boston that year, he brought a reputation that was, quite arguably, more lustrous than that of the large (26,000 students) university dwelling in the shadow cast across the Charles by Harvard and MIT.Boston University would certainly gain everything for which President Case could have hoped in recruiting Thurman.
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After a Japanese student committed suicide, Mrs. Thurman, fearing that international students were prone to feeling isolated and undervalued at the university, organized the International Student Hostess Committee. Death: 1930: Relatives. Equally important, during his years in San Francisco, Thurman had written his first books, in which he had expounded his philosophy, previously available only through his sermons and contributions to various periodicals.These early monographs, especially 1949's Jesus and the Disinherited, earned Thurman an influential readership, here and abroad, that, along with other aspects of his ministry, would lead Life Magazine to include him on its 1953 list of twelve great preachers in America. There she would be more than a conventional pastor's wife, most notably perhaps in leading a delegation of the Fellowship Church to the Fourth Plenary Session of UNESCO in Paris and in establishing the Juliette Derricotre Memorial Foundation.Equally important, she would pursue her own initiatives, most notably as the founder and editor of the Aframerican Women's Journal, the first publication of the National Council of Negro Women, and as the first chair of the Council's National Library, Archives, and Museum, which led the first delegation of Negro women to make a study tour in Cuba.A graceful writer, herself, she was the author of two books, including a history of Afro-Americans in California that was inspired by the Thurmans' move to San Francisco.At Boston University, she continued her support for her husband's ministry by welcoming students and faculty and members of the Greater Boston community to their home.