• At the invitation of the House of Spirituality of Chicago, nine Bahá'ís from various communities join some ten from the Chicago area at a one-day conference to foster national cooperation on the Temple project and to choose a suitable site for the Temple. [BFA2:280; CT78; GPB262, 349]

• Mabry and Sadie Oglesby and their daughter Bertha from Boston as well as Agnes Parsons and Louis Gregory were involved. Agnes Parsons, during her pilgrimage in 1920, was instructed by 'Abdu'l-Bahá, "I want you to arrange in Washington a convention for unity between the white and colored people."[SETPE1p141-145, BW2p281]
• For details of the conference see article by Louis Gregory entitled "Inter-racial Amity". [BW2:281-2]
• See article The Bahá'í 'Race Amity' Movement and the Black Intelligentsia in Jim Crow America:Alain Locke and Robert Abbot by Christopher Buck [Bahá'í Studies Review, 17, pages 3-46, 2011] (includes a chronology of 29 Race Amity conferences organized in the United States between 1921 and 1935).

• For Shoghi Effendi’s message to the conference see BW12:121–4.
• For a report of the conference see BW12:124–30.
• It is attended by ten Hands of the Cause, Bahá’ís from 19 countries and representatives of over 30 tribes. [PP413]
• Over a hundred new African believers attend as personal guests of the Guardian. [PP413]
• With this conference the Ten Year World Crusade is launched. [BBRSM158–9; BW12:253; MBW41]

• For Shoghi Effendi’s message to the conference see BW12:178–81.
• For a report of the conference see BW12:181–8.
• This was the first international Bahá’í gathering ever to be held in the East. [BW12:181; SBR171]
• It was attended by 489 Bahá’ís representing 31 countries. [BW 12:181]
• The design for the International Bahá’í Archives was revealed to the Bahá’ís of the world for the first time at this conference. [DH168]

• Hand of the Cause Amatu’l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum, who had been designated by the Guardian as his representative, attends, accompanied by Dr Lutfu’lláh Hakím.
• For the message of the Custodians to the conference see MC56–60.
• For a report of the conference see BW13:317.

• For a detailed account and many pictures see BW14:57–80.
• For the programme of speakers see BW14:60–1.
• Some 6,000 Bahá’ís attend.

• Two thousand people enrol during the conference and the week following. [BW15:335]

The Continental Board of Counsellors sponsored the first West African Bahá’í Youth Conference in conjunction with the National Spiritual Assembly of Upper West Africa. The Conference was held in The Gambia on the campus of Yundum College some fifteen miles from the capital city of Bathurst. Youth representing nine countries in this zone attended: Nigeria, Upper Volta, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone, The Gambia, Senegal and Mauritania, plus pioneers originating from the United States, Mauritius, Malaysia, Iran, and friiq. A young Bahá’í from Sweden was able to greet the friends during a brief stop on a boat cruise. Counsellors Mr. H. R. Ardikani and Dr. William Maxwell Jr., were present as well as six of their Auxiliary Board members, Mr. Amos Agwu, Mr. Muhammad Al-Salihi, Mrs. H. Vera Edwards, Mr. Friday Ekpe, Mr. Shidan Kouchekzadeh and Dr. B. Sadiqzadeh. A total of fifty-six persons attended. [Bahá'í News 504]

• For picture see BW17:211.

• For picture see BW94–5:189.

• A BAHÁ'Í PERSPECTIVE ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT was presented by Michael Richards of the Overseas Development Institute in London.
• At the conference, the objectives, activities and structure of the Forum were agreed and statutes adopted, and a governing board of five people was elected.
• It is a Bahá'í-inspired non-governmental organization that links together Bahá'ís and others interested in the fields of environment and sustainable development. Development of the Forum has been encouraged and guided by the Bahá'í International Community, although it has no formal link with the Bahá'í administration.