No Jim Crow church : the origins of South Carolina's Baha'i community / Louis Venters.
Publisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]Copyright date: copy©2015Description: 1 online resource (345 pages) : illustrations, map, portraitsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780813061078
- 9780813055497 (e-book)
- 297.9/309757 23
- BP352.S6 V46 2015eb
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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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.