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No Jim Crow church : the origins of South Carolina's Bahá'í community
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- Creator
- Louis Venters
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- [First paperback edition]
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
- ©2015
- Physical Details
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- xxii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780813054070, 0813054079
- OCLC
- ocn946906412
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-302) and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Bahai Faith -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century.
- Bahai Faith -- Relations -- History -- 20th century.
- Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Bahai Faith -- History -- 20th century.
- Bahais -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century.
- South Carolina -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century.