Venters, Louis, <br/><br/>
No Jim Crow church :  the origins of South Carolina's Baha'i community / 
Louis Venters. 
 - 1 online resource (345 pages) :  illustrations, map, portraits 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813055497 (e-book) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Bahai Faith--History--South Carolina--20th century.<br/>Bahais--South Carolina.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>South Carolina--History.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BP352.S6  / V46 2015eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>297.9/309757