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For most African-Americans who grew up with the legacy of segregation and violence, making space for introspection was difficult. Martin Luther King Jr., however, learned to integrate spiritual growth with social transformation …
Thurman taught King Jr. that spiritual cultivation was necessary to take on the intense work of social activism. AP File Photo For most African-Americans who grew up with the legacy of segregation …
This month I pay personal tribute to the cloud of witnesses in the American Freedom Movement on whose shoulders I stand.
Thurman was 30 years older than King: the same age, in fact, as King’s father. Among his most significant contributions was bringing the ideas of nonviolence to the civil rights movement.
At the time of his death in 2020, Dr. Charles H. Long was called “a preeminent figure in the study of the history of religions, including American and Black Religions.” Long was a past president of the American Academy of Religion, and faculty member at the University of Chicago, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Syracuse University, and the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1999, he published Significations: Signs, Symbols, and Images in the Interpretation of Religion, a criticism of several major approaches to the study of religion in the United States.