![]() ![]() 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). ![]() Howard Thurman, one of the most important Black theological leaders of the 20th Century, significantly influenced the spiritual and civil rights evolution of Dr. ![]()
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