Walter Earl Fluker and Associates is delighted to announce that the digital version of our five-volume documentary edition, The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman is now open and accessible to the public. Founded in 1992, the mission of the Howard Thurman Papers Project is to preserve and promote Thurman’s vast documentary record, which spans 63 years and consists of approximately 58,000 items of correspondence, sermons, unpublished writings, and speeches.

Thanks to The Howard Thurman Papers Project in collaboration with The Center for Digital Editing at the University of Virginia, directed by Jennifer E. Stertzer, and a long list of editors, researchers, advisors, and funding institutions, we can make this free online treasure trove available to our various constituencies. The idea of a digital edition of the printed volumes began in the spring of 2016 when Dr. Fluker served as Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor at Boston University (2010 - 2020)..

Silvia Glick, one of the editors on the digitization project and the former managing editor of the Howard Thurman Papers Project (HTPP), calls this journey with this work “the long and winding road.” “The long and winding road,” and the many fellow-travelers who accompanied the work since 1992, have produced, in addition to the five-volume documentary edition, a total of eleven volumes of Howard Thurman’s writings, correspondence, speeches, lectures, and sermons, spanning sixty years of his life and work, including this new digital edition of The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman (PHWT). PHWT has served as a critical resource for two biographies, an audio learning course, two film documentaries, dissertations, and numerous books, articles, and essays that continue to serve as reminders of Thurman’s powerful legacy. The HTPP, in collaboration with The Center for Digital Editing, is also creating public education programs to bring the works of Thurman to a broader audience.

None of these would have been possible without the generous financial and material support from the following contributors: Boston University School of Theology, the Boston University Center for the Humanities, the Howard Gotlieb Archival and Research Center, the Lilly Endowment, the Louisville Institute, the Henry Luce Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a timely gift from the family of Virginia Scardigli, a close associate of Howard Thurman and former secretary of the Fellowship Church.

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