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Howard Thurman was a towering figure in the history of civil rights in the U.S. when he and others made a pilgrimage to meet Gandhi in 1936. That meeting changed history.
Peter Eisenstadt is the author of Against the Hounds of Hell: A Life of Howard Thurman. He was Associate Editor of the Howard Thurman Papers Project and is an affiliate member of the Clemson University history department. He is author of Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing.