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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Other southernersPublisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813055497
  • 0813055490
  • 9780813051352
  • 0813051355
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No Jim Crow churchDDC classification:
  • 297.9/309757 23
LOC classification:
  • BP352.S6 V46 2015eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)879263

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.

Print version record.

English.