The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman is a four-volume,
chronologically arranged documen tary edition spanning the long and
productive career of the Reverend Howard Thurman, one of the most
significant leaders in the history of intellectual and religious
life in the mid-twentieth-century United States. As the first to
lead a delegation of African Americans to meet personally with
Mahatma Gandhi, in 1936, Thurman would become one of the principal
architects of the modern nonviolent Civil Rights Movement and a key
mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1953 Life magazine named
Thurman as one of the twelve greatest preachers of the century.
The four volumes of this collection, culled from over 58,000
documents from public and private sources, will feature more than
850 selections of Thurman's sermons, letters, essays, and other
writings--most published here for the first time. Each volume will
open with an editorial state ment, followed by a thematic
introductory essay to guide the reader through the dominant themes
in Thurman's thought: his understanding of spirituality and social
transformations, his creative ecclesiology, and his conception of
civic character and the national democratic experi ment. Detailed
annotations to each document illumine Thurman's personal,
professional, and in tellectual development and place the texts
into their historical context. The volumes are further augmented
with detailed chronologies and representative illustrations.
Volume 2 (April 1936-August 1943) documents Thurman's years after
his return from South Asia and his final years as a professor of
philosophy and religion and dean of Rankin Chapel at Howard
University. The texts, images, and editorial commentary presented
here reveal the maturation of Thurman's theological and social
vision, formed by his memories of his time in Asia, his meeting
with Gandhi, and his growing commitment to radical nonviolence. His
writing also reflects the context of his time, responding to the
great events of the day: the Depression, the Great Migration, the
birth of the modern Civil Rights Movement, and the coming of World
War II. This volume ends immediately prior to Thurman's decision in
late 1944 to leave the security of Howard University to copastor a
fledgling church in San Francisco, the Church for the Fellowship of
All Peoples, one of the first churches in the United States to be
organized on an explicitly interracial basis. Critical to
understanding the full scope of Thurman's career, the myriad
writings gathered in volume 2 also illustrate the early germination
of ideas central to the twenty-three books Thurman subsequently
authored. Their publication here gives new opportunity to
understand these pieces in the context of his life and the genesis
of his vision.
This documentary edition is made possible through the efforts of
the Howard Thurman Papers Project, a division of the Leadership
Center at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, and is supported
by the Lilly Endowment, Inc.; the Henry Luce Foundation; the
National Endowment for the Humanities; the Pew Charitable Trusts,
Inc.; and the National Historical Publications and Records
Commission.
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