No Jim Crow church : : the origins of South Carolina's Baha'i community / / Louis Venters.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Gainesville : : University Press of Florida,, [2015] 2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (345 pages) :; illustrations, map, portraits |
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Table of 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.