Disciplines Of The Spirit Thurman, Howard African-Americana,Music

Reprint. Octavo. Fine in about fine dust jacket with a tiny nick. Signed by the author. Thurman was a classmate and friend of Martin Luther King's father at Morehouse College, and Thurman served as a spiritual advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr., during the height of the Civil Rights Movement. In 1951, Martin Luther King, Jr. studied at Boston University, following his studies at Morehouse College and Crozer Theological Seminary, where, in 1953, Howard Thurman served as Dean of Marsh Chapel at Boston University. In discussing the profound influence Thurman had on Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. Walter L. Fluker (Director, Howard Thurman Papers Project, at Morehouse College), states: "Leaders like King do not arise out of a historical vacuum. There are movements and there are personalities who actually sow the seeds. Thurman is one of those persons who sows the seed. In fact, I don't believe you'd get a Martin Luther King, Jr. without a Howard Thurman ("The Legacy of Howard Thurman - Mystic and Theologian," *Religion & Ethics Newsweekly*).