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.

9780813055497 0813055490 9780813051352 0813051355

823920 MIL 22573/ctvwwdj82 JSTOR


1900-1999


Bahai Faith--History--South Carolina--20th century.
Bahais--South Carolina.
Race relations--Religious aspects--Bahai Faith--History--20th century.
RELIGION--Islam--General.
Race relations--Religious aspects--Bahai Faith.
Race relations.
Bahai Faith.
Bahais.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)


South Carolina--History.
South Carolina--Race relations--History--20th century.
South Carolina.


Electronic books.
History.

BP352.S6 / V46 2015eb

297.9/309757