Tag: Sue Bailey Thurman

• The Moral Government of the World: On Faith, Reason, and Truth

  I. THE SOUL-FORCE IN HISTORY In his spiritual message to the world, notable because it is one of the rare extant speeches Mohandas K. Gandhi gave in English, the satygrahi remarked that There is an indefinable mysterious power that pervades everything, I feel it though I do not see it. It is this unseen power […]

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  March 15, 2019

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• The Thurman Delegation in India, 1935-1936

  

  Sue Bailey Thurman and Howard Thurman travelled to India, Burma and Ceylon, as part of the first African-American delegation to colonial India in 1935-1936, at the height of its anti-colonial struggle against the British Empire. Known as the Pilgrimage of Friendship to the East, the delegation was organized by the Student Christian Movement in the […]

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  February 11, 2019

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  Art, black Christianity, black civilization, Christianity, civilization, freedom, Gandhi, Hinduism, Howard Thurman, intercivilizational unity, khadi, labor, liberation, Martin Luther King Jr., music, negro spiritual, Pan Afro-Asiatic Civilizational Complex, Pan Asia, PanAfricanism, Paul Robeson, race, slavery, socialism, Sue Bailey Thurman, talented tenth, the color line, The World and Africa, Theology, vanguard, W.E.B Du Bois, YearofDuBois