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Tag "African Americans"

tag name: African Americans type: General
web link: African_Americans
related tags: - Americas; Diaspora, African; Race
referring tags: Ebony magazine
references: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans; bahaipedia.org/African_American_Bahá’ís_by_1925

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  1. `Abdu'l-Bahá's 1912 Howard University Speech: A Civil War Discourse for Interracial Emancipation, by Christopher Buck, Nahzy Abadi Buck (2012-12-22). — Presentation at Grand Canyon Baha'i Conference on Abdu'l-Baha and the Black Intelligentsia, especial...
  2. Abdu'l-Baha's 1912 Howard University Speech: A Civil War Myth for Interracial Emancipation, by Christopher Buck (2013). — Overview of the event, press coverage, publications of the speech, the Emancipation Proclamation "my...
  3. African American Baha'is, Race Relations and the Development of the Baha'i Community in the United States, by Richard Thomas (2005-03-08). — Robert Turner, Susie Steward, Louis Gregory, and the roles played by blacks in the history of the Ba...
  4. African Americans in the United States, by Universal House of Justice (1996-04-01). — Comments about what public role might be played by the Baha'i Faith in America to ameliorate the dif...
  5. Africanity, Womanism, and Constructive Resilience: Some Reflections, by Layli Maparyan (2020). — The meanings of the metaphor "pupil of the eye;" experiences of growing up African-American in the W...
  6. Alain Locke: 'Race Amity' and the Bahá'í Faith, by Christopher Buck (2007-09-24). — Presentation in slide format about the "First Black Rhodes Scholar."
  7. Alain Locke, by Christopher Buck (2013).
  8. Alain Locke: Baha'i Philosopher, by Christopher Buck (2001/2002). — Biography of one of the important African American intellectuals and his impact on American thought ...
  9. Alain Locke, by Christopher Buck (2004). — The life and ideas of the leading African-American intellectual Alain Locke and his involvement with...
  10. Alain Locke and Cultural Pluralism, by Christopher Buck (2004). — The worldview of the African American thinker Alain Locke as a Baha'i, his secular perspective as a ...
  11. Alain Locke on Race, Religion, and the Bahá'í Faith, by Christopher Buck (2018). — Locke was cynical about the prospect of real progress in race relations within Christianity itself, ...
  12. Alain Locke: Faith and Philosophy, by Christopher Buck: Review, by Derik Smith (2008).
  13. Alain Locke: Race Leader, Social Philosopher, Bahá'í Pluralist: 94th Annual Commemoration of 'Abdu'l-Baha's 1912 Visit to Howard University, by Christopher Buck (2006-04-15). — Available both as audio and PDF, and includes press release.
  14. Alain Locke: Race Leader, Social Philosopher, Baha'i Pluralist: includes Alain Locke in his Own Words: Three Essays and a poem, by Christopher Buck, Alain Locke (2005). — Article by Buck, poem "The Moon Maiden" and three essays by Locke introduced by Buck: "The Gospel fo...
  15. Amoz Everett Gibson: The First Black Member of the Universal House of Justice, by Richard Francis (1998). — Biography of a prominent black Baha'i teacher and former member of the Universal House of Justice.
  16. Bahá'í 'Race Amity' Movement and the Black Intelligentsia in Jim Crow America, The: Alain Locke and Robert Abbott, by Christopher Buck (2011). — W. E. B. Du Bois, Alain L. Locke and Robert S. Abbott, ranked as the 4th, 36th and 41st most influen...
  17. Bahá'í Faith and African American History, The: Introduction, by Loni Bramson (2018). — Contents, Introduction, and Index from this book, with links to two chapters (by Christopher Buck).
  18. Black Roses in Canada's Mosaic: Four Decades of Black History, by Will C. van den Hoonaard, Lynn Echevarria-Howe (1994-02). — Survey of African-Americans in Canada, their activities in the Baha'i community, and statistical in...
  19. Calling, The: Tahirih of Persia and Her American Contemporaries, by Hussein Ahdieh, Hillary Chapman (2017). — Simultaneous, powerful spiritual movements swept across both Iran and the U.S in the mid-1800s. On t...
  20. Centering the "Pupil of the Eye": Blackness, Modernity, and the Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, by Derik Smith (2019). — The "pupil of the eye" metaphor is a deeply consequential, distinguishing feature of the transformat...
  21. Champions of Oneness: Louis Gregory and His Shining Circle, by Janet Ruhe-Schoen: Review, by Lex Musta (2016).
  22. Constructive Imaginary, The, by Michael Karlberg (2020). — In a 2007 letter on the closing of the BIHE, the Universal House of Justice introduced the concept o...
  23. Demographics of the United States National Spiritual Assembly, by Archives Office of the United States Bahá'í National Center (2016-03-17). — Percentage of women, African-Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Latino Americans serv...
  24. Guess Who's Coming to Church: The Chicago Defender, the Federal Council of Churches, and Rethinking Shared Faith in Interracial Religious Practice, by William Stell (2023-12). — Exploring "Go-to-a-White-Church Sunday" initiated by Robert S. Abbott (1922) and "Race Relations Sun...
  25. Harlem Renaissance, by Christopher Buck (2013).
  26. Hayden, Robert, by Christopher Buck, Derik Smith (2019). — In his poetics of history and his nuanced representations of black life, Hayden's art showed that th...
  27. Interracial "Bahá'í Movement" and the Black Intelligentsia, The: The Case of W. E. B. Du Bois, by Christopher Buck (2012-12). — Du Bois’s encounters with the Baha’i religion from 1910 to 1953, his connection to the New York ...
  28. Locke, Shock, and Abbott: Baha'i Theology and the Acceleration of the African American Civil Rights Movement, by Guy Emerson Mount (2010). — African American responses to Abdu'l-Baha's 1912 visit to America, Abdu'l Baha's teachings among pro...
  29. Margaret Danner, the Black Arts Movement, and the Bahá'í Faith, by Richard Hollinger (2016 Summer). — Short overview of the life of a black Baha’i poet of some renown in the 1960s and 1970s. Includes ...
  30. No Jim Crow Church: The Origins of South Carolina's Bahá'í Community, by Louis Venters: Review, by Richard Thomas (2016).
  31. Public Discourse on Race: Abdu'l-Bahá's 1912 Howard University Speech, by Christopher Buck (2012-02-10). — Presentation at Louhelen Bahá’í School on ‘Abdu’l-Baha and the black intelligentsia, his v...
  32. Pupil of the Eye, The: African Americans in the World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, by The Báb, Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá, Universal House of Justice, Bonnie J. Taylor, comp. (1998). — A compilation of references in the Baha'i writings to African-Americans and those of African descent...
  33. Religious Perspectives on the Narratives of America: The Search for Just, Honest, Inclusive and Forward-looking Tellings, Audrey C. Price, ed, Selvi Adaikkalam Zabihi, ed. (2024). — Eleven essays by contributors from different communities, exploring how religious insights can creat...
  34. Robert Hayden, by Christopher Buck (2004-01-29). — The first African American poet-laureate of the United States (as Library of Congress "Consultant in...
  35. Robert Hayden's 'American Journal': A Multidimensional Analysis, by Christopher Buck (2008). — A study of an often neglected poem which combines an informal cultural analysis of the USA with a so...
  36. Servants of the Glory: A Chronicle of Forty Years of Pioneering, by Adrienne Morgan, Dempsey Morgan (2017). — Memoirs of a black couple from the United States who lived and spread the Baha’i Faith in across p...
  37. Trial and Triumph: The Origins of the Bahá'í Faith in Black America, by Jerome Green (2004). — Focusing on a period between 1890 and 1940, this work addresses how Black America first encountered ...
  38. Various Essays, by Susan Gammage (2013-2018/2023). — 47 short essays on following the teachings and living a Baha'i life, life coaching and counselling, ...
  39. Views from a Black Artist in the Century of Light, by Elizabeth de Souza (2020). — On the experiences of Black artists; biographical notes on McCleary “Bunch” Washington; African-...
  40. Why Constructive Resilience? An Autobiographical Essay, by Michael L. Penn (2020). — Reflections on growing up African-American; guidance from and a meeting with William Hatcher; the re...

2.   from the Chronology (4 results; expand)

  1. 1848-07-19 — The Women's Rights Convention was held in the Wesleyan Chapel at Seneca Falls, NY. The principle org...
  2. 1926-02-07 — Carter G. Woodson, author, historian and professor, (1875-1950), initiated the first celebration of ...
  3. 1954-06-09 — The passing of Alain LeRoy Locke (b. September 13, 1885, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.) in New York...
  4. 1986-01-28 — The death of NASA Astronaut Ronald Erwin McNair (b. 21 October, 1951 in Lake City, SC) when Space Sh...
 
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