No Jim Crow church : the origins of South Carolina's Baha'i community /

Venters recounts the unlikely emergence of a cohesive interracial fellowship in South Carolina over the course of the twentieth century, as blacks and whites joined the Baha'i faith and rejected the region's religious and social restrictions.

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Autor Principal: Venters, Louis (Author)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • First contacts, 1898-1916
  • The divine plan, the great war, and progressive-era racial politics, 1914-1921
  • Building a Baha'i community in Augusta and North Augusta, 1911-1939
  • The great depression, the second World War, and the first seven year plan, 1935-1945
  • Postwar opportunities, cold war challenges, and the second seven year plan, 1944-1953
  • The ten year plan and the fall of Jim Crow, 1950-1965
  • Coda: toward a Baha'i mass movement, 1965-1968.