Bibliography
Mahadev Desai. The Dairy of Mahadev Desai. (Admedabad: Navajivan Publishing, 1953). Desai was Gandhi’s long-time secretary and personal assistant. A respected writer who chronicled all of the major events of Gandhi life from 1932 to 1942. Most of the diaries are in Gujurati but some translations in English `do exist. For the meetings between Thurman and Gandhi, see the dairy entries for 1936.
Quinton H. Dixie and Peter Eisenstadt. Visions of a Better World: Howard Thurman’s Pilgrimage to India and the Origins of African American Nonviolence (Boston: Beacon Press, 2011).
Sudarshan Kapur. Raising Up a Prophet: The African American Encounter with Gandhi. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1992). Available online at: https://archive.org/details/raisingupprophet00kapu/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater.
This is probably the definitive scholarly work on the relationship between Gandhi and the Black Freedom Struggle in America.
Howard Thurman. Jesus and the Disinherited (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1949). Available online at: https://archive.org/details/jesusdisinherite0000thur_g6e5/mode/2up?view=theater.
Howard Thurman. The Inward Journey: Meditations on the Spiritual Quest. (NY: Harper & Brothers, 1961). Online at: https://archive.org/details/inwardjourney0000thur/page/n5/mode/2up.
Howard Thurman. The Search for Common Ground. (NY: Harper & Row, 1973). Available online at: https://archive.org/details/searchforcommong00thur/page/n3/mode/2up.
Howard Thurman. With Head a Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman. (NY: Harcourt, Brace, Javonovich, 1979). Available online at: https://archive.org/details/withheadheartautthu00thur/page/n7/mode/2up?view=theater.
Periodicals
Lynn Burnett. “When Martin Luther King’s Mentors Met with Gandhi” in Croll Cultural Solidarity, at https://crossculturalsolidarity.com/african-americans-make-contact-with-gandhi-the-1930s/ gives an excellent overview and context of the historic meeting of these two individuals.
Dennis C. Dickerson. “Gandhi’s India and Beyond: Black Women’s Religious and Secular Internationalism, 1935 – 1952” in The University of Chicago Press Journals, vol. 104. no. 1. At
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/701106 In particular, this article ties directly into the essay “The Womb of Struggle” presented in chapter 1 of this book and the article begins with Sue Bailey Thurman’s contributions to the dialog between Mahatma Gandhi and her husband, Howard Thurman.
Quinton H. Dixie and Peter Eisenstadt. “When Howard Thurman Met Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence and the Civil Rights Movement” in Beacon Broadside, October 2, 2014 at:
https://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2014/10/when-howard-thurman-met-mahatma-gandhi-nonviolence-and-the-civil-rights-movement.html.
Walter E. Fluker. “How Toward Thurman met Gandhi and brought nonviolence to the civil rights movement” in History News Network, January 31, 2019, at https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/how-howard-thurman-met-gandhi-and-brought-nonviole
Fluker, a professor of Ethical Leadership at Boston University, is one of the world’s leading academic experts on Howard Thurman.
Gandhi Center. “A Pilgrimage of Friendship” January 23, 2023 it: https://www.gandhimemorialcenter.org/the-gandhi-message/2023/1/16/a-pilgrimage-of-friendship.
Filmography
“Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story” in PBS. 2019.https://www.tpt.org/backs-against-the-wall-the-howard-thurman-story/
Note the reference in the film’s title is to the Claude McKay poem from the Harlem Renaissance.