Bibliography: 6FT72AQ7

key	6FT72AQ7
title	Barbara Ehrsam and the Bahá’í Faith in Kansas, 1868–1924
author	Herrmann, Duane L.
authority control	Duane L. Herrmann
item type	Journal article
publication year	2022
date	2022
publication title	Kansas History : A Journal of the Central Plains
abstract note	Many streams of thought (philosophical, political, religious) have found a home in Kansas over the past century and a half; some have lasted only briefly, others have become prominent, some though enduring and growing, have remained little-known. This article introduces one of the latter. This traces the arrival of the Bahá'í Faith in Kansas through the life of Barbara Ehrsam, beginning with the first news mention of the religion in a Leavenworth newspaper in 1868, to her invitation to the first Bahá'í teacher in Kansas, hosting a class in her home in 1897, to her participation in a national Bahá'í project before her death in 1924. The Bahá'í community has continued in Kansas from that time and has grown across the state. Remarkably, the Bahá'í community that grew from her home in Enterprise, Kansas was the second in the Western hemisphere after Chicago. How that happened and the difficulties of distance and development, in those early years, is examined and documented here.
pages	70-87
issue	2
volume	45
language	English
manual tags	HISTORY; BIOGRAPHY; KANSAS; EHRSAM, BARBARA