Footprints of a Dream: The Story of the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples

In a narrative that has urgent significance for every church congregation facing the racial dilemma of mid-twentieth century America Howard Thurman tells the dramatic story of the founding of the first fully integrated church in the United States--the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples in San Francisco. Dr. Thurman cofounder and long time minister gives a complete and intimate picture of the beginnings of Fellowship Church its early problems experiments and successful attainment of complete interracial unity. In simple moving terms he describes the everyday events of church life--worship services choir practice church school etc. - against the background of a multiracial congregation. Through his genius the reader experiences the anxious moments of forming new patterns of organization the thrill of new and unexpected allies of vistas opening into the future.