Bibliography: BIB39590

Key	BIB39590
Reference type	Journal Article
Title	The Silent Warrior : George Goodman, the Bahá’í Faith, and Racial Activism
Journal	Journal of Black Religious Thought
Author	Robinson, W. Terry and Hughey, Matthew W.
Year	2024
Date	December 2024
Issue	2
Volume	3
Abstract	George Wendell Goodman (1901–1981) was an African American racial equality and civil rights activist and member of the Bahá’í Faith. Goodman held positions in the Urban League, Fisk University, the Red Cross during World War II, and across varied Black newspapers and radio stations, as well as being elected and appointed to positions across the American Bahá’í religious community. Despite these realities, little extant scholarship examines Goodman’s life, largess, and legacy, or, for the focus of this paper, how his racial and religious commitments were co-constitutive. Pulling from a diverse array of media accounts, archives, published material, and interviews, we thus aim to rescue an important figure in both Black civil rights and American religious history from relative obscurity and in so doing demonstrate how Goodman was, as the editors of the Washington Afro-American described him in 1941, a "Silent Warrior …. Because he has fought a consistent up-hill battle against great odds, and has succeeded, without fanfare."
Language	English
Keywords	GOODMAN, GEORGE WENDELL; BIOGRAPHY; CIVIL RIGHTS; RACE UNITY; JUSTICE
URL	https://doi.org/10.1163/27727963-03020005
Pages	207–245
Legal note	11.