| Description |
1 online resource (345 pages) : illustrations, map, portraits |
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text rdacontent |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Bahai Faith -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century.
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Bahais -- South Carolina.
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South Carolina -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Venters, Louis. No Jim Crow church : the origins of South Carolina's Baha'i community. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015] 9780813061078 |
| ISBN |
9780813061078 |
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9780813055497 (electronic bk.) |
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