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No man can do it alone. 3 men behind MLK's nonviolent fight for justice | Opinion
Judson L. Jeffries is professor of African American and African studies at Ohio State University and a regular contributor to The Columbus Dispatch.
Of that which has been written about Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr., very little has focused on the men behind the man, the men who influenced Dr. King.
King was the product of good mentorship and aside from his father, he could not have asked for a more dynamic triumvirate than Dr.
Benjamin E. Mays, president of Morehouse College, theologian Howard Thurman, and Bayard Rustin, a seasoned veteran of the struggle for racial equality having led protests in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, not to mention organizing the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Insight into these men helps us develop a better appreciation for who Dr.
King was and how he came to be the leader we celebrate today.
Thurman, 30 years King’s senior, was dean of Marsh Chapel at