Lights of the Spirit
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| Lights of the Spirit (2006) edited by Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis and Richard Thomas Historical Portrait of Black Bahá’ís in North America: 1898-2000 |
Contents
IN THE NORTH AMERICAN BAHÁ’Í COMMUNITY
- Introduction
- 1 Introduction to the Bahá’í Faith
by Richard Thomas - 2 The “Pupil of the Eye”: African-Americans and the Making of the American Bahá’í Community
by Richard Thomas - 3 Radiant Lights: African-American Women and the Advancement of the Bahá’í Faith in the U.S.
by Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis - 4 Race, Gender and Difference: African-American Women and the Struggle for Equality
by Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis - 5 Spreading the Divine Fragrances: African-American Bahá’ís in the Global Expansion of the Bahá’í Faith, 1937-63
by Richard Thomas - 6 Unrestrained as the Wind: African-American Women Answer the Call
by Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis - 7 Black Roses in Canada’s Mosaic: Four Decades of Black History
by Will C. van den Hoonaard and Lynn Echevarria
- Introduction
- 8 The Bahá’í Faith and Problems of Color, Class, and Creed
by Elsie Austin - 9 Racial Amity in America: An Historical Review
by Louis Gregory - 10 Social Basis of World Unity
by Elsie Austin - 11 Racial Amity
by Louis Gregory - 12 A Slave for Life: A Story of the Long Ago
by Coralie Franklin Cook - 13 The Negro as a World Citizen
by John B. Shaw - 14 Votes for Mothers
by Coralie Franklin Cook
- 15 Letter to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá ‘Abbás
by Coralie Franklin Cook - 16 The Spiritual Heritage of African-Americans
by Bonnie Fitzpatrick Moore
- 17 Heroines of the Faith
by Zylpha Mapp Robinson - 18 Sadie Rebecca Johnson Ellis
by Adrienne Reeves - 19 Arrival in Haifa, March 11, 1927
by Sadie Oglesby - 20 Mary Brown Martin: 1877-1939
by Lydia Jane Martin
