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related tags: Equality; Unity of humanity
referring tags: African Americans; Interracial marriage; Race amity; Race inequality; Race unity; Racism

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1.   from the main catalog (105 results)

  1. 1970-1995: Newspaper articles archive (1970). — Collection of newspaper articles from 1970-1995. Also available as a zipped archive: <a href="ht...
  2. Jan T. Jasion. Abdu'l-Baha and "The Other" (2021). — On xenophobia; Abdu'l-Baha's response to it; his reactions to certain newspapers; the impact of xeno...
  3. Firuz Kazemzadeh. Abdu'l-Bahá in America, by Robert H. Stockman, and Abdu'l-Bahá's Journey West: The Course of Human Solidarity, ed. Negar Mottahedeh: Reviews (2013).
  4. Christopher Buck and Nahzy Abadi Buck. `Abdu'l-Bahá's 1912 Howard University Speech: A Civil War Discourse for Interracial Emancipation (2012). — Presentation at Grand Canyon Baha'i Conference on Abdu'l-Baha and the Black Intelligentsia, especial...
  5. Christopher Buck. Abdu'l-Baha's 1912 Howard University Speech: A Civil War Myth for Interracial Emancipation (2013). — Overview of the event, press coverage, publications of the speech, the Emancipation Proclamation "my...
  6. Amin E. Egea. Abdu'l‐Bahá y la cuestión racial (2022). — Pese a compartir objetivos comunes, la perspectiva sobre la armonia racial del lider de la religión...
  7. Steven Gonzales. Affirmative Action and the Jurisprudence of Equitable Inclusion: Towards a New Consensus on Gender and Race Relations (1995). — The principle of equity and the Baha’i emphasis on unity in diversity as a basis for considering A...
  8. Richard Thomas. African American Baha'is, Race Relations and the Development of the Baha'i Community in the United States (2005). — Robert Turner, Susie Steward, Louis Gregory, and the roles played by blacks in the history of the Ba...
  9. Universal House of Justice. African Americans in the United States (1996). — Comments about what public role might be played by the Baha'i Faith in America to ameliorate the dif...
  10. Layli Maparyan. Africanity, Womanism, and Constructive Resilience: Some Reflections (2020). — The meanings of the metaphor "pupil of the eye;" experiences of growing up African-American in the W...
  11. Christopher Buck. Alain Locke (2004). — The life and ideas of the leading African-American intellectual Alain Locke and his involvement with...
  12. Christopher Buck. Alain Locke (2013).
  13. Christopher Buck. Alain Locke: 'Race Amity' and the Bahá'í Faith (2007). — Presentation in slide format about the "First Black Rhodes Scholar."
  14. Christopher Buck. Alain Locke: Baha'i Philosopher (2001). — Biography of one of the important African American intellectuals and his impact on American thought ...
  15. Christopher Buck. Alain Locke and Cultural Pluralism (2004). — The worldview of the African American thinker Alain Locke as a Baha'i, his secular perspective as a ...
  16. Christopher Buck. Alain Locke on Race, Religion, and the Bahá'í Faith (2018). — Locke was cynical about the prospect of real progress in race relations within Christianity itself, ...
  17. Christopher Buck. Alain Locke's "Moral Imperatives for World Order" Revisited (2019). — In public speeches presented in 1944 Locke argues that racism, although an American problem, is not ...
  18. Derik Smith. Alain Locke: Faith and Philosophy, by Christopher Buck: Review (2008).
  19. Christopher Buck. Alain Locke: Race Leader, Social Philosopher, Bahá'í Pluralist: 94th Annual Commemoration of 'Abdu'l-Baha's 1912 Visit to Howard University (2006). — Available both as audio and PDF, and includes press release.
  20. Christopher Buck and Alain Locke. Alain Locke: Race Leader, Social Philosopher, Baha'i Pluralist: includes Alain Locke in his Own Words: Three Essays and a poem (2005). — Article by Buck, poem "The Moon Maiden" and three essays by Locke introduced by Buck: "The Gospel fo...
  21. Christopher Buck. "And universal peace — in what Book is this written?": How and Why 'Abdu'l-Bahá Identified "New" and Distinctive Bahá'í Principles (2022). — Reflections on ‘Abdu’l-Baha's answer to the question "What has Baha’u’llah brought that we h...
  22. Mike McMullen. Atlanta Bahá'í Community and Race Unity, The: 1909-1950 (1995). — History of the Baha'i­ faith in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, a city whose Baha'i community dates back alm...
  23. Christopher Buck. Bahá'í "Pupil of the Eye" Metaphor, The: Promoting Ideal Race Relations in Jim Crow America (2018). — On the notable contribution to promoting ideal race relations in Jim Crow America by the Baha'i Fait...
  24. Christopher Buck. Bahá'í 'Race Amity' Movement and the Black Intelligentsia in Jim Crow America, The: Alain Locke and Robert Abbott (2011). — W. E. B. Du Bois, Alain L. Locke and Robert S. Abbott, ranked as the 4th, 36th and 41st most influen...
  25. James S. Tinney. Baha'i Doctrine Attracts Non-whites (1983). — On the Baha'i Faith's progress toward racial unity; brief bios of Glenford Mitchell, Amoz Gibson, Wi...
  26. Loni Bramson. Bahá'í Faith and African American History, The: Introduction (2018). — Contents, Introduction, and Index from this book, with links to two chapters (by Christopher Buck).
  27. Hussein Ahdieh. Bahá'í History and Videos (2013). — Links to Zoom videos on a variety of topics: Kahlil Gibran, the life of Varqa, Baha'i schools for gi...
  28. Richard Thomas. Bahá'í Response to Racial Injustice and Pursuit of Racial Unity, The: Part 1 (1912-1996) (2021). — The American Baha’i community’s historical efforts to address racial injustice which has afflict...
  29. Abe Levy. Bahá'ís have outsized MLK presence (2013). — Baha'is play an increasingly-active role in events celebrating the message of Martin Luther King.
  30. Rhett Diessner. Bahá'í Faith and Peace Psychology, The: The Potential for Science and Religion to Collaborate (1994). — On the potential for Bahá’í peace initiatives, coupled with empirical peace psychology approac...
  31. Ted Brownstein. Black and Beautiful: Skin Color in the Biblical Song of Songs (2023). — Racial biases can be found in several translations of the biblical Song of Solomon; a look at the or...
  32. Derik Smith. Centering the "Pupil of the Eye": Blackness, Modernity, and the Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh (2019). — The "pupil of the eye" metaphor is a deeply consequential, distinguishing feature of the transformat...
  33. Lex Musta. Champions of Oneness: Louis Gregory and His Shining Circle, by Janet Ruhe-Schoen: Review (2016).
  34. Donald Osborn. Colorblindness and Race Unity: One Bahá'í's Perspective (1997). — Reflections on race perspectives in the Baha'i writings.
  35. Chuck Egerton. CommonVisions: Photography and Conflict Transformation (2015). — How an arts-based photography project, built on the concept of the oneness of humanity, was used to ...
  36. Michael Karlberg. Constructive Imaginary, The (2020). — In a 2007 letter on the closing of the BIHE, the Universal House of Justice introduced the concept o...
  37. Shahrzad Sabet. Crisis of Identity, The (2023). — Exploring how the Baha’i principle of the oneness of humanity can resolve the seemingly intractabl...
  38. Universal House of Justice. Cultural Reconciliation in Canada (2000). — The Universal House of Justice suggests to the National Spiritual Assembly of Canada that their effo...
  39. Universal House of Justice. Cultural Reconciliation in Canada - questions (2001). — Reply from the House of Justice to a request for a reexamination of the assumptions on which its let...
  40. Marzieh Gail. Dawn over Mount Hira and Other Essays (1976). — A collection of essays on various topics of interest to Baha'i studies and history. Most of these we...
  41. Dianne Coin. Dear White Christians: For Those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation, by Jennifer Harvey: Review (2017).
  42. Universal House of Justice. Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Nine Year Plan (2022). — Matters relating to the Nine Year Plan (2022-2031), ethnic and cultural diversity, humanity's crisis...
  43. Archives Office of the United States Bahá'í National Center. Demographics of the United States National Spiritual Assembly (2016). — Percentage of women, African-Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Latino Americans serv...
  44. Universal House of Justice. "Double Crusade (2018). — Comments on what the double crusade means, how it relates to the current series of Plans of the Fait...
  45. Universal House of Justice. Eliminating Racial Prejudice and Activities of the Five Year Plan (2011). — Letter indicating continuing applicability of the statement of the Guardian on racial prejudice desp...
  46. Robert P. Powers. Experiment in Race Relations, A (1952). — An early program in race tolerance, preceding the Civil Rights movement, as described by a prominent...
  47. Aline Shane-Devin. Extracts from Notes Taken at Acca (1907). — [needs abstract]
  48. Benjamin Leiker. Faith, Theory, and Practice: Interracial Marriage as a Symbol of the Oneness of Humanity (2004).
  49. Harlan F. Ober. Richard Francis, ed. Gregory, Louis G.: The Advancement of Racial Unity in America (1993). — Short biography of an early African-American Baha'i.
  50. Gayle Morrison. Gregory, Louis George (2009). — On the African American lawyer who became a leading Baha’i speaker, writer, administrator, and pro...
  51. William Stell. Guess Who's Coming to Church: The Chicago Defender, the Federal Council of Churches, and Rethinking Shared Faith in Interracial Religious Practice (2023). — Exploring "Go-to-a-White-Church Sunday" initiated by Robert S. Abbott (1922) and "Race Relations Sun...
  52. Christopher Buck. Harlem Renaissance (2013).
  53. Harvard Pluralism Project: Baha'i (2023). — Six overview essays on Baha'i history, beliefs, and practices. (Offsite)
  54. Christopher Buck and Derik Smith. Hayden, Robert (2019). — In his poetics of history and his nuanced representations of black life, Hayden's art showed that th...
  55. Christopher Buck. Interracial "Bahá'í Movement" and the Black Intelligentsia, The: The Case of W. E. B. Du Bois (2012). — Du Bois’s encounters with the Baha’i religion from 1910 to 1953, his connection to the New York ...
  56. Kathleen Jenkins. Intimate Diversity: The Presentation of Multiculturalism and Multiracialism in a High-Boundary Religious Movement (2003). — On the construction and maintenance of multiracial/ethnic networks in religious movements, through a...
  57. National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States. Introduction to a Statement on Race Unity (1997). — An informal letter on the "most challenging issue confronting America."
  58. Bahá'u'lláh and Abdu'l-Bahá et al. Helen Bassett Hornby, comp. Lights of Guidance: A Bahá'í Reference File (1988). — The classic Baha'i reference book. This is its first online edition.
  59. Christopher Buck. Bolhuis Arjen, comp. List of Articles on BahaiTeachings.org (2020). — List of online essays and articles by Christopher Buck since 2014.
  60. Guy Emerson Mount. Locke, Shock, and Abbott: Baha'i Theology and the Acceleration of the African American Civil Rights Movement (2010). — African American responses to Abdu'l-Baha's 1912 visit to America, Abdu'l Baha's teachings among pro...
  61. Frances Bradford Jones Edelstein. Memoirs of Frances Bradford Jones Edelstein (1999). — Memoirs of the first pioneer to Famagusta (as requested by Shoghi Effendi to pioneer from the City o...
  62. Ruhiyyih (Mary Maxwell) Khanum. Message to the Indian and Eskimo Bahá'ís of the Western Hemisphere (1969). — Letter to Native American and Inuit believers, about the assurance given in the Baha'i Writings that...
  63. Vasu Mohan and Donna Denize et al. Monologues on the Bicentenary of the Birth of Baha'u'llah and Howard University Visit Commemoration (2017). — Five biographical monologues delivered in the fictionalized voices of Harriett Gibbs Marshall, Laura...
  64. Louis E. Venters. "Most Great Reconstruction": The Bahá'í Faith in Jim Crow South Carolina, 1898-1965 (2010). — The Faith enjoyed a period of growth from the 1960s-1980s that was largely inspired by interracial t...
  65. Gayle Morrison. New Creation, A: The Power of the Covenant in the Life of Louis Gregory (1999). — Louis Gregory's achievements, focussing on his promotion of the oneness of humankind, teaching the B...
  66. Universal House of Justice. New Race of Men and the meaning of "Tread Under", A (2013). — The meaning of the phrase "A race of men ... will tread under all who are in heaven." Includes compi...
  67. Richard Thomas. No Jim Crow Church: The Origins of South Carolina's Bahá'í Community, by Louis Venters: Review (2016).
  68. National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States. Oneness of Mankind, The: Basic Principle of the Bahá'í Faith (1956). — Statement of Baha'i teachings prepared in order to clarify the position of members of the Faith thro...
  69. Graham Hassall. Outpost of a World Religion: The Bahá'í Faith in Australia 1920-1947 (1991). — An updated version of a paper published in two places.
  70. Dorothy Baker. Path to God, The: 1937 (1937). — Essay published as a pamphlet about the goal of life, revelation and access to heaven, self-improvem...
  71. Báb, The and Bahá'u'lláh et al. Bonnie J. Taylor, comp. Power of Unity, The: Beyond Prejudice and Racism [excerpts] (1986).
  72. Will C. van den Hoonaard. Prejudice and Discrimination (1993). — Prejudice is cultural. History shows no society is immune. U.S. Baha'is facilitated Racial Amity gro...
  73. Christopher Buck. Public Discourse on Race: Abdu'l-Bahá's 1912 Howard University Speech (2012). — Presentation at Louhelen Bahá’í School on ‘Abdu’l-Baha and the black intelligentsia, his v...
  74. Báb, The and Bahá'u'lláh et al. Bonnie J. Taylor, comp. Pupil of the Eye, The: African Americans in the World Order of Bahá'u'lláh (1998). — A compilation of references in the Baha'i writings to African-Americans and those of African descent...
  75. Michael Karlberg. Pursuit of Social Justice, The (2022). — An interdisciplinary examination of prevailing conceptions of human nature, power, social organizati...
  76. Maye Harvey Gift and Alice Simmons Cox. Race and Man: A Compilation (1943). — A collection of words of scientists, sociologists and educators, arranged to present the problem of ...
  77. Matthew Hughey. Race and Racism: Perspectives from Bahá'í Theology and Critical Sociology (2017). — Review of the concepts of race and racism based on social scientific understanding, in order to bett...
  78. Christopher Buck. Race Unity Day (2011).
  79. June Manning Thomas. Race, Place, and Clusters: Current Vision and Possible Strategies (2017). — Division by place affects the possibilities for racial unity, especially in fragmented U.S. metropol...
  80. John S. Hatcher. Racial Identity and the Patterns of Consolation in the Poetry of Robert Hayden (1990). — The dramatic tension in Robert Hayden’s poetry has often been mistaken for personal ambivalence an...
  81. Amin E. Egea. Reading Reality in Times of Crisis: 'Abdu'l-Bahá and the Great War (2021). — How ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s analysis of the crises of His time was profoundly distinct from contemporan...
  82. June Thomas. Reconsidering the Civil Rights Era in the Footsteps of 'Abdu'l-Bahá (2022). — On principles of racial prejudice and 1960s South Carolina, including the fallacy of racial prejudic...
  83. Roshan Danesh and Douglas White III. Rising to the Challenge of Reconciliation (2023). — Analyzing the legacy of colonialism and racism in Canada and examining the profound, multifaceted pr...
  84. John S. Hatcher. Road Less Travelled By, The (2017). — "From the Editor's Desk": Overview of this issue's articles regarding racism and proper responses to...
  85. Duane L. Herrmann. Robert Hayden and Being Politically Correct (1993). — Robert Hayden did not bow to or rebel against expectations of political correctness, and regarded hi...
  86. Benjamin Friedlander. Robert Hayden's Epic of Community (1998). — A study of Hayden's poetry in the context of the American experience.
  87. Deborah Clark Vance. Same Yet Different, The: Bahá'í Perspectives on Achieving Unity out of Difference (2002). — Based on in-depth interviews with members of the Baha’i Faith [in the USA] to uncover a descriptio...
  88. Deborah Clark Vance. Same Yet Different, The: Creating Unity Among the Diverse Members of the Bahá'í Faith (2002). — A study of the process by which people form a unified community from diverse cultures based on inter...
  89. Jamar M. Wheeler. Seeking Light in the Darkness of "Race" (2017). — A historical sketch of how race concepts evolved, with analysis at macro and micro levels of society...
  90. Roger White. Settling the Score With Mr. Ogden Nash for the Seven Spiritual Ages of Mrs. Marmaduke Moore and Thereby Achieving if Not a Better Verse at Least a Longer Title (1979). — A dialogue for two readers, adapted from a poem.
  91. Jack McLean. Shoghi Effendi and Social Justice (2007). — The term "social justice” has been used by many engaged groups as a rhetorical tool to obtain more...
  92. Universal House of Justice. Social Action, Public Discourse, and Non-involvement in Political Affairs (2017). — Alternative courses of action to civil disobedience, circumscribed roles for protest, and the freed...
  93. June Manning Thomas. Spatial Strategies for Racial Unity (2020). — On the nature and approaches of Baha’i educational programs and community building efforts which s...
  94. Ruhiyyih (Mary Maxwell) Khanum. Spiritual Assembly's Growing Pains, A (1976). — A play, in 28 pages, showing "some of the workings of a Baha'i Spiritual Assembly: some of the blund...
  95. Spiritual Reinforcement: Study Questions, Compilation, and Quiz (1957). — Questions and quizzes for individual study and group discussion, on "what every Baha'i should know" ...
  96. John S. Hatcher. Still the Most Challenging Issue (2019). — "From the Editor's Desk": On race, racism, and the American Baha'i community.
  97. Marzieh Gail. Summon Up Remembrance (1987). — Memoir left by Ali-Kuli Khan, one of the first translators of Baha'i Writings; writings of his wife ...
  98. Ali Nakhjavani and Violette Nakhjavani. Three Talks in Africa (2001). — Three talks given in East London, South Africa circa August-September 2001, on personal reminiscence...
  99. Roger M. Dahl. Three Teaching Methods Used During North America's First Seven-Year Plan (1993). — Teaching methods used by American Bahá’ís to spread the Faith; firesides and teaching campaign...
  100. Bahá'u'lláh and Abdu'l-Bahá et al Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, comp. To Set the World in Order: Building and Preserving Strong Marriages (2023). — The cause of unity; creating families that illuminate the world; the ideal milieu for learning the p...
  101. Jerome Green. Trial and Triumph: The Origins of the Bahá'í Faith in Black America (2004). — Focusing on a period between 1890 and 1940, this work addresses how Black America first encountered ...
  102. Universal House of Justice. Usage of the Word "Negro" in Writings of Shoghi Effendi (2021). — Brief letter about the historically evolving use of racial terminology, and avoiding offense.
  103. National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States. Vision of Race Unity: America's Most Challenging Issue (1991). — A formal statement from the US NSA on "the most challenging issue confronting America."
  104. Universal House of Justice. White Bahá'í Men as a sub-group combatting racism (2000). — Use of the phrase "white Baha'i men" in an anti-racism project in North Carolina.
  105. Anthony Lee. Ziba Khanum of Yazd: An Enslaved African Woman in Nineteenth-Century Iran (2017). — Issues of race, gender, slavery, and religion as experienced by an Afro-Iranian family in the 19th a...

2.   from the Chronology (23 results)

  1. 1852-03-20 — The publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was the...
  2. 1899-00-01 — Miss Olive Jackson of Manhattan became the first black American woman Baha'i. [BFA1:126-7]...
  3. 1911-07-26 — The First Universal Races Congress was held at the University of London. It was the first important...
  4. 1912-09-22 — The marriage of Louis G. Gregory and Louisa ("Louise") A. M. Mathew, the first interracial Baha'i co...
  5. 1917-07-28 — The National Association of the Advancement of Colored People's (NAACP) organized a Silent Protest P...
  6. 1919-04-26 — The 14 <a href="https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/tablets-divine-plan"...
  7. 1921-05-19 — The first Race Amity Conference was held in Washington DC at the old First Congregational Church, 1...
  8. 1921-12-05 — The second Convention for Amity between the White and Coloured Races was held in Springfield, Massac...
  9. 1927-01-08 — The National Spiritual Assembly of the United States and Canada appointed seven people to a National...
  10. 1927-04-08 — The second conference for racial amity in Washington was held at the Mt Pleasant Congregational Chur...
  11. 1927-11-10 — The third convention for amity in inter-racial relations in Washington was held in the Mt. Pleasant ...
  12. 1928-01-20 — The Chicago community held its first Race Amity Conference. Louis Gregory was a speaker at that gat...
  13. 1928-02-11 — The 'Conference for Inter-Racial Amity' was arranged by Inter-Racial Amity Committee of the Bahá'i...
  14. 1932-02-27 — Race Amity gatherings became an effective way promote the principle of racial equality. A number pf ...
  15. 1934-01-24 — Agnes S. Parsons died after an automobile accident. [BW5:410; SBR96; BN No 82 April 1934 p4] She ...
  16. 1936-07-00 — Following on the success of the <a href="http://bahai-library.com/chronology/1921-05-19">initi...
  17. 1952-04-21 — The National Convention of the Baha'is of Central America was scheduled to be held in a prestigious ...
  18. 1991-00-00 — The first major public statement of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United Sta...
  19. 1993-03-21 — The presentation of the first Race Unity Award by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of ...
  20. 2017-08-01 — The release of the film <a href="http:/arashazizi.com/2017/08/11/the-cost-of-discrimination-the-f...
  21. 2018-04-12 — The premiere of the documentary film, An American Story: Race Amity and The Other Tradition in a tel...
  22. 2020-06-19 — The National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States issued a statement entitled <...
  23. 2020-12-06 — The presentation of a webinar at the Wilmette Institute by Jan Teofil Jason entitled <a href="htt...

3.   from the Chronology of Canada (1 result)

  1. 1993-03-21 — The presentation of the first Race Unity Award by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of ...
 

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