the origins of South Carolina's Bahá'í community /
First Statement of Responsibility
Louis Venters
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xxii, 321 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations, maps ;
Dimensions
25 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-302) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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First contacts, 1898-1916 -- The divine plan, the Great War, and progressive-era racial politics, 1914-1921 -- Building a Bahá'í 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 Bahá'í mass movement, 1965-1968
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Bahai Faith-- South Carolina-- History-- 20th century