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Dr. Thurman’s Childhood Home

We can only imagine the stories that Dr. Thurman heard from his formerly enslaved grandmother in the home that we now preserve. In later years he would reveal that she had a profound impact on his ministry and his ideas about justice and social equality. We are grateful to be the legacy keepers of one of the most influential leaders of the 20th century.

In an interview Dr. Thurman recounted his life with his grandmother stating “The things that came to me directly from my grandmother are very important. In the first place, she was a strong, positive, self-contained human being. Her life was full of tragedies – hunger, cold, the death of some of her children. But she had built-in controls. Only once did I see a tear on her cheek. That was the night, in my college years, that the people of our church came to our house to give me a surprise at the end of the summer during which I had been their preacher. You felt that she contained and honored all of your feelings and all of hers, but they didn’t spill over. I got a certain kind of strength from her. ”