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

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Venters, Louis [author.]

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780813055497
0813055490
9780813051352
0813051355

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No Jim Crow churchDDC classification:

297.9/309757 23

LOC classification:

BP352.S6 V46 2015eb

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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.

Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.