Event Poster: The Reverend Howard Thurman, Blackness, and Vassar College: Student Panel and Presentations
As part of Vassar’s Inclusive History Initiative, students in a Vassar Intensive presented research relating to the influential religious and civil rights leader.
Black theologian Howard Thurman has been widely credited with being a mentor to civil rights leaders Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Bayard Rustin, and Pauli Murray. But Reverend Thurman also played a key role in shaping Vassar’s human rights journey, delivering more than a dozen sermons in the Chapel