Sue Bailey Thurman

Sue Bailey Thurman
1904 - 1997
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First Name Sue
Middle Name Bailey
Last Name Thurman
Birthday 30th November, 1903
Birthplace Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Died 1997
Place of Death San Francisco, California
Nationality American
Occupation Text writer, lecturer, historian, civil rights activist
Occupation Activist
Year(s) Active 1926–1995, 1926–95

Sue Bailey Thurman (née, Sue Elvie Bailey; August 26, 1903 – December 25, 1996) was an American author, lecturer, historian and civil rights activist. She was the first non-white student to earn a bachelor's degree in music from Oberlin College, Ohio. She briefly taught at the Hampton Institute in Virginia, before becoming involved in international work with the YWCA in 1930. During a six-month trip through Asia in the mid 1930s, Thurman became the first African-American woman to have an audience with Mahatma Gandhi. The meeting with Gandhi inspired Thurman and her husband, theologian Howard Thurman, to promote non-violent resistance as a means of creating social change, bringing it to the attention of a young preacher, Martin Luther King Jr. While they did not actively protest during the Civil Rights Movement, they served as spiritual counselors to many on the front lines, and helped establish the first interracial, non-denominational church in the United States.

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