Thurman’s first assignment was to pastor Mount Zion Baptist Church in Oberlin, Ohio. Their first daughter Olive was born in 1927. She was a graduate of the Teacher’s Course of Spelman Seminary, which later became Spelman College. In 1926, Thurman married Katie Kelley less than a month after graduating from seminary. In 1925, Thurman was ordained as a Baptist minister after he completed his study at the Colgate Rochester Theological Seminary in New York State.

He moved on to attend Morehouse College in Atlanta and graduated as the school’s valedictorian in 1923.

Thurman became the first Black student to receive a high school diploma in Daytona Beach. Because of Jim Crow, Thurman was forced to attend high school at the Florida Baptist Academy in Jacksonville, about 100 miles away from his home in Daytona Beach, one of only three Black high schools in the state. Further, it was his grandmother and mother, two deeply spiritual women and members of the Mount Bethel Baptist Church in Waycross, that established Thurman’s spiritual foundation. “Grandma Nancy” built a powerful bond with her grandson in part because Howard read to his grandmother, who could not read. That left his mother Alice and his maternal grandmother Nancy Ambrose, a formerly enslaved woman, as the primary caregivers for Howard and his two sisters Henrietta and Madeline. His father Saul Thurman died of pneumonia, when Howard was seven. Thurman was born in 1899, in the Waycross community of Dayton Beach, Florida, one of three all-Black enclaves in the town. Jesse Jackson and myriad other faith-based Black leaders. Howard Thurman, an internationally renowned theologian, author, educator, philosopher and civil rights leader, was spiritual adviser to the Rev. Charles Hamilton Houston, one of the greatest legal minds in American history trained a phalanx of Black super lawyers at Howard University in Washington D.C., including the iconic Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, who laid the legal groundwork for the courtroom victories that eventually broke the back of Jim Crow.Īnd another pioneering Howard University professor, the Rev. (Photo courtesy of Morehouse College National Alumni Association)ĪFRO Senior argue the Black American struggle for freedom and justice in the 20th century was facilitated mainly via two paths: faith (the church) and the law (the courtroom). I can't bind directly the remove function to a DOM element because buttons will be created on-the-fly.Howard Thurman, one of the most important Black theological leaders of the 20th Century, significantly influenced the spiritual and civil rights evolution of Dr. I also tried to create an approach closer to what the documentation states: $(document).on('click', '#btn-test', function()Ĭannot read property 'removeAllTags' of undefined With this in mind, I have tried without success the following (can be seen here in JSFiddle): $(document).on('click', '#btn-test', function()

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