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