Updates on the activities of the Project

Walter Earl Fluker, Project Editor/Director, has been appointed Executive Director of the Morehouse College Leadership Center. Dr. Fluker is also Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Morehouse College and Visiting Professor of African-American Religious Tradition at Harvard Divinity School. Jo Ann Lahmon came on board as Project and Information Systems Manager in August 1998. Dr. Lahmon holds a Ph.D. in Library and Information Studies from Florida State University and was employed with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville for a number of years. Dr. Luther Smith, Professor of Church and Community, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, came on board as Consulting Editor with the project, September 1, 1999. Dr. Alton Pollard, III Associate Professor and Director of Black Church Studies, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, began working with the Project as Assistant Editor (consulting) on September 5, 2000. Joyce Sheffield was hired as Documentary Editing Transcriber in September 2000.

Other Highlights of the Project are outlined as follows:

An electronic database has been established which now holds approximately 58,000 records. The cataloged records included in this database contain writings and correspondence found in Thurman's personal papers at Boston University, supplemented by documents researched in approximately one hundred related collections. Of the 58,000 records, approximately 700 letters and writings have been selected for publication in a three volume documentary edition entitled The Sound of the Genuine: The Papers of Howard Thurman. Included in those selected are Thurman's Rochester Theological Seminary Senior Thesis (1926), correspondence relating to his 1935-36 trip to India with Mrs. Sue Bailey Thurman, and some of his Fellowship Church sermon series. The University of South Carolina Press will simultaneously publish all three volumes of The Sound of the Genuine: The Papers of Howard Thurman in the year 2002.
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