![]() ![]() ![]() As Harvey writes, “Thurman was foremost a man of ideas” (3). While a biography, this book also serves as an intellectual history and offers a solid introduction to Thurman’s writings and lectures. Adding to the work of Walter Fluker, Peter Eisenstadt, Luther Smith, and Quinton Dixie, Harvey provides an accessible introduction to the life of Thurman and a helpful intellectual history of a critical influence on the Black freedom struggle of the 20 th century. ![]() Thanks to the work of Paul Harvey in Howard Thurman and the Disinherited: A Religious Biography, readers can familiarize themselves with an intellectual and theological bedrock of the movement who is steadily receiving more attention. With a few exceptions, Howard Thurman shared this fate until recently. Countless people who took part in the civil rights movement have not received public recognition, let alone scholarly attention. ![]()
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