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<h1>Howard Thurman</h1>
<h4>Great civil rights leader</h4>
<h3><em><small>Key mentor to leaders, including Martin Luther King, Jr.</small></em></h3>
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<p>Howard Thurman with his book "the growing edge", printed in 1956.</p>
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<h3>Here's a time line of Howard Thurman:</h3>
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<li><strong>1899</strong> - born in Florida, probably in West Palm Beach.</li>
<li><strong>1923</strong> - Thurman graduated from Morehouse College as valedictorian.</li>
<li><strong>1925</strong> - he was ordained as a Baptist minister at First Baptist Church of Roanoke, Virginia.</li>
<li><strong>1928</strong> - he moved to Atlanta, Georgia.</li>
<li><strong>1929</strong> - Thurman pursued further study as a special student at Haverford College with Rufus Jones, a noted Quaker philosopher and mystic.</li>
<li><strong>1932-1944</strong> - Thurman served as dean of Rankin Chapel at Howard University.</li>
<li><strong>1944</strong> - he co-founded, along with Alfred Fisk, the first major interracial, interdenominational church in the United States.</li>
<li><strong>1949</strong> - wrote "Jesus and the Disinherited", which deeply influenced Martin Luther King, Jr. and other leaders, both black and white, of the modern Civil Rights Movement</li>
<li><strong>1953-1965</strong> - served as dean of Marsh Chapel at Boston University</li>
<li><strong>1981</strong> - died on April 10, 1981 in San Francisco, California.</li>
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<h3>“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”.</h3>
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<h3>If you want, you can read this man best quotes <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/56230.Howard_Thurman"target="_blank">here</a>.</h3>
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