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Venters, Louis,

No Jim Crow church : the origins of South Carolina's Baha'i community / Louis Venters. - 1 online resource - Other Southerners . - Other southerners. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.


English.

ISBN: 9780813055497 0813055490 9780813051352 0813051355

Source: 823920 MIL 22573/ctvwwdj82 JSTOR

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1900-1999

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Bahai Faith--History--South Carolina--20th century.
Bahais--South Carolina.
Race relations--Religious aspects--Bahai Faith--History--20th century.
Foi bahaïe--Histoire--Caroline du Sud--20e siècle.
Bahaïs--Caroline du Sud.
Relations raciales--Aspect religieux--Foi bahaïe--Histoire--20e siècle.
RELIGION--Islam--General.
HISTORY--State & Local--South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)--United States
Race relations--Religious aspects--Bahai Faith
Race relations
Bahai Faith
Bahais

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
South Carolina--History.
South Carolina--Race relations--History--20th century.
Caroline du Sud--Histoire.
Caroline du Sud--Relations raciales--Histoire--20e siècle.
South Carolina

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
History

LC Class. No.: BP352.S6 / V46 2015eb

Dewey Class. No.: 297.9/309757