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Olive Thurman’s Life and Legacy as one of Vassar’s First Black Students. As any college student knows, the process of coming into one’s identity and finding one’s voice as a young adult requires constant exploration of oneself and the world. For Olive Thurman, the 1948 Vassar graduate and daughter of theologian Howard Thurman, that ...
May 6, 2012 · WONG--Olive Katherine Thurman Olive Katherine Thurman Wong, the daughter of Dr. Howard Thurman passed away in San Rafael, California, Thursday, April 5, 2012. She was a librarian,...
Olive Katherine Thurman Wong was the eldest daughter of Dr. Howard Thurman by his 1st wife, Katie Kelley Thurman. Sue Bailey Thurman was her stepmother and Anne Spencer Thurman Chiarenza. She was a librarian, theater director, writer, costume and fashion designer. She worked as a curator for a Performance Costume...
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. The Surprising Legacy of Black Theologian Rev. Howard Thurman at Vassar
Wong was married four times: to Olive Thurman Wong (daughter of civil rights activist Howard Thurman ), Carol Freeland, Robin Goodfellow, and Dawn Rose. He had two daughters, Emily and Heather, and three sons, Anton, Lyon, and Duncan. His children Emily and Anton were from his first marriage to Olive Thurman.
Jul 10, 2023 · Howard Thurman answers this question in the final chapter of Jesus and the Disinherited. Pointing to the centrality of the love ethic in Jesus’s teachings, he observes the types of people Jesus befriended who, by all accounts, should have been absolute enemies.
The address was just one of more than a dozen visits Thurman made to Vassar and this Chapel between 1928 and 1957. He was the father of Olive Thurman Wong ’48, one of the first openly acknowledged Black students to attend Vassar.
