No Jim Crow church : the origins of South Carolina's Baha'i community / / Louis Venters

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910797588503321
• Autore: Venters Louis
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Gainesville : , : University Press of Florida, , [2015]; ©2015
• ISBN: 0-8130-5135-5; 0-8130-5549-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (345 p.)
• Collana: Other Southerners
• Disciplina: 297.9/309757
• Soggetti: Bahai Faith - South Carolina - History - 20th century; Bahais - South Carolina; South Carolina History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.