In San Francisco in 1944, after his long pilgrimage to meet Gandhi, Howard Thurman co-founded the first racially integrated intercultural church in America. Around him gathered a wider company of Black and white Christian thinkers: Benjamin Mays, Vernon Johns, Pauli Murray, and the young Martin Luther King Jr. among them. King carried a copy of Thurman’s Jesus and the Disinherited with him through the Montgomery bus boycott.