![]() ![]() At a time when most black children did not attend public schools, he was graduated from the eighth grade and later attended Florida Baptist Academy high school, working as a janitor to pay for his education.Īfter graduating from Morehouse College in Atlanta and Colgate-Rochester Divinity School in Rochester in 1925, he was ordained a Baptist minister. He was director of of the Howard Thurman Educational Trust, a foundation that he began in 1951 to give aid to disadvantaged students and to help organizations with religious, cultural and educational programs.īorn in Daytona Beach, Fla., he was reared by his grandmother, who had been born a slave. Howard Thurman, one of the nation's leading black clergymen and educators and an early champion of a Christianity that emphasized the needs of the poor and disadvantaged, died Friday in San Francisco after a lingering illness. ![]()
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