Title: The papers of Howard Washington Thurman
Description: The landmark publication of the early writings of this pioneering voice for social justice.

The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman is a multivolume, chronologically arranged documentary edition spanning the long and productive career of the Reverend Howard Thurman, one of the most significant leaders in the intellectual and religious life of the United States in the mid-twentieth century. The first to lead a delegation of African Americans to meet with Mahatma Gandhi in 1936, Thurman later became one of the principal architects of the modern nonviolent civil rights movement and a key mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and others involved in the movement. In 1953 Life magazine named Thurman one of the twelve greatest preachers of the century.
Subjects: Doctrines, Baptists, Theology, Correspondence, Correspondance, History, African American Baptists, Thurman, howard, 1900-1981, Baptists, doctrines
People: Howard Thurman (1900-1981)