The years, the months, the days, and the hours have flown by my open window. Here and there an incident, a towering moment, a naked memory, an etched countenance, a whisper in the dark, a golden glow these and much more are the woven fabric of the time I have lived.

In 1944 Thurman left his tenured position at Howard to help the Fellowship of Reconciliation establish the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples in San Francisco California. He was Dean of Chapel at Howard University and Boston University for more than two decades wrote 21 books and in 1944 helped found a multicultural church. The university holds the Howard Thurman Papers and the Sue Bailey Thurman Papers where they are catalogued and available to researchers.

Howard Thurman (1899 – April 10 1981) was an influential American author philosopher theologian educator and civil rights leader.