He was African-American. He died in San Francisco. He influenced Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was the dean of chapels at Howard and Boston Universities and the first black dean of a majority-white university in the United States. He co-founded the first major interdenominational church in the United States, the Church of Fellowship of […]
Read more "Howard Thurman"Sunrise 1/7/1891 Nostasulga, Alabama, sunset 1/28/60 in Florida. She was a PK, preacher’s kid. She grew up in Eatonville, Florida, an all-black town. She worked as a maid and a singer. During her life she had 4 novels published, most notably Their Eyes Were Watching God, and 50 short stories, plays, and essays. She lied […]
Read more "Zora Neale Hurston"She was born Eunice Waymon. She changed her name so her mother wouldn’t know she was playing non-church music a.k.a. the devil’s music a.k.a. jazz. She wanted to be the first black classical pianist to play Carnegie Hall. She wrote Mississippi Goddam after the deaths of Medgar Evans and the girls in the church in […]
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