QUINTON DIXIE and PETER EISENSTADT are two of the country's leading experts on Howard Thurman. They are both senior volume editors of the Howard Thurman Papers Project and have extensive backgrounds in African American history and religious history. Eisenstadt is an independent historian with a PhD in history from New York University. He is the author or editor of six books, including Rochdale Village, Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History,/i>, and Black Conservatism. He is also the associate editor of The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman, Vols. I-III.