Bibliography: BIB27841

web link	bahai-library.com/bibliography/BIB27841
reference type	Book
title	No Jim Crow Church : The Origins of South Carolina's Bahá'í Community
author	Venters, Louis
Authority control 1	Louis E. Venters
authority control	Louis E. Venters
year	2015
publisher	University Press of Florida
place published	Gainesville, FL
issue	7.
ISBN	9780813061078
abstract	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 Bahá'íi faith and rejected the region's religious and social restrictions.
notes	lccn 2015006614. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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.
language	English
keywords	SOUTH CAROLINA; HISTORY; 20TH CENTURY
number of pages	xxii, 321
call number	BP352.S6 V46 2015