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" No Jim Crow church : "
Louis Venters
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BL
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636077
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Venters, Louis
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No Jim Crow church : : the origins of South Carolina's Bahá'í community /\ Louis Venters
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xxii, 321 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 25 cm
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9780813061078
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: 0813061075
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-302) and index
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| Contents
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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
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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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Bahai Faith-- South Carolina-- History-- 20th century
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Bahais-- South Carolina
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South Carolina, History
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297.9/309757
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BP352.S6V46 2015
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