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Howard Thurman

Howard Thurman was spiritual adviser to Martin Luther King Jr. and the first black dean of Boston University’s Daniel Marsh Chapel. This excerpt is taken from a transcript of his 1976 speech “America in Search of a Soul.” It is included in A Strange Freedom, a collection of Thurman’s works edited by Walter Earl Fluker and Catherine Tumber (Beacon Press).

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