No Jim Crow Church: The Origins of South Carolina's Bahá'í Community (Other Southerners)

Synopsis

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. 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. Louis Venters. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 287-302) And Index.