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Teacher. Minister. Theologian. Writer. Mystic. Activist. No single label can capture the multiplicity of Howard Thurman's life, but his influence is written all over the most significant aspects of the Civil Rights movement. In 1936, he visited Mahatma Gandhi in India and subsequently brought Gandhi's concept of nonviolent resistance across the globe to the United States. Later, through his book Jesus and the Disinherited, he foresaw a theology of American liberation based on the life of Jesus as a dispossessed Jew under Roman rule. Paul Harvey's biography of Thurman speaks to the manifold ways this mystic theologian and social activist sought to transform the world to better reflect "that which is God in us," despite growing up in the South during the ugliest years of Jim Crow.
About the Author
Paul Harvey is Distinguished Professor of History and Presidential Teaching Scholar at the University of Colorado, and the creator and "blogmeister emeritus" of the Religion in American History blog at http://usreligion.blogspot.com. His personal webpage is at http://paulharvey.org. You can follow Paul on twitter @pharvey61.
