The life and journey of two influential leaders by the name of Howard Washington Thurman who was born, November, 18, 1899 - April 10, 1981.Thurman was an African American author, educator and civil rights leader. Mohandas Karamchad Gandhi was his birth name but he was known as Mahatma Gandhi, was born October, 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948. Gandhi was the Indian civil rights leader.
When Thurman was growing up in Daytona beach it was segregated. The highest grade he could attend was the seventh grade. Thurman’s family scraped together the funds to send him to high school in Jacksonville. Thurman was told at the train station he had to pay extra to send his luggage. He used all his money to buy his ticket. He sat down and began to cry because he no funds left. An African American Male walked by and paid the charges. He never introduced himself. When Thurman wrote his autobiography, he dedicated it "to the stranger in the railroad station in Daytona Beach who restored my broken dream sixty-five years ago."
Howard Thurman was raised by his grandmother who had been enslaved, He was born and raised in Daytona beach Florida. He became a Baptist minister in 1925.
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His grandfather was the prime minister of Porbander and was succeeded by his father Karamchad Gandhiji. His father died in 1885. He studied in porbander at an elementary school. Gandhi has deep faith in principles and intelligence at a very young age. He was married at the age of thirteen and had four sons name Devdas, Harilal, Manilal and Ramdas. On September 4, 1888, at the age of 18 he sailed to England and was enrolled in the Inner Temple. He was very interested in vegetarianism and studied different religions. Gandhi decided to stay in England because of more opportunities. June 10, 1981 he passed his bar exam. He got an offer to go to South Africa and work for Dada Abdulla & Company to instruct their consul in a law