No Jim Crow church : the origins of South Carolina's Baha'i community / / Louis Venters
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| Autore: |
Venters Louis
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| Titolo: |
No Jim Crow church : the origins of South Carolina's Baha'i community / / Louis Venters
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| Pubblicazione: | Gainesville : , : University Press of Florida, , [2015] |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (345 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 297.9/309757 |
| Soggetto topico: | Bahai Faith - South Carolina - History - 20th century |
| Bahais - South Carolina | |
| Soggetto geografico: | South Carolina History |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | No Jim Crow church |
| ISBN: | 0-8130-5135-5 |
| 0-8130-5549-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910797588503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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