Howard Thurman, an unorthodox mystic and prophet, served as a spiritual mentor to civil rights leaders in the mid-century black freedom struggle. The work became an intellectual pillar for the burgeoning civil rights movement in the 1950s. What does Jesus offer to a people who live with their backs against the wall? This is the question with which Howard Thurman began his landmark work, Jesus and the Disinherited, in 1949.
He was one of the principal architects of the modern, nonviolent civil rights movement and a key mentor to Dr. Howard Washington Thurman (1899–1981) played a leading role in many social justice movements and organizations of the twentieth century.
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