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Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]

1 online resource (345 pages) : illustrations, map, portraits

ISBN 9780813055497 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9780813061078

Print version: Venters, Louis. No Jim Crow church : the origins of South Carolina’s Baha’i community. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015] ISBN 9780813061078

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.

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 Baha’i faith and rejected the region’s religious and social restrictions..

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