U.S. Supplement/Issue 77/Text

NSA Announces Appointment of Two Committees on Teaching

To meet the demands of the Nine Year Plan on the homefront, which include doubling the number of local spiritual assemblies, it is essential both to consolidate and strengthen all new assemblies as they are formed, and to expand and develop the existing ones, both large and small. To accomplish these objectives effectively, the National Spiritual Assembly considers it necessary to have a committee whose sole function is to focus on this task. Therefore, in addition to a National Teaching Committee, a “Community Development Committee” has been appointed to assist all local spiritual assemblies to become “firmly grounded, well informed, and actively functioning.” This is to include: 1) deepening and consolidating the new assemblies; 2) devising ways and means for all Bahá’í communities to grow in teaching and administrative stature; 3) assisting in the achievement of incorporation and legal recognition of Bahá’í Holy Days and the Bahá’í Marriage Certificate; 4) facilitating dispersal from the larger

communities; and 5) other development activities as- _

signed by the National Spiritual Assembly from time to time.

The National Teaching Committee, as in the past, will continue to carry out the functions of: 1) proclaiming and expanding the Faith throughout the United States as called for under the Nine Year Plan; 2) increasing the number of localities where Bahá’ís reside; 3) raising groups to assembly status; 4) encouraging, supervising and coordinating extension teaching activities of local spiritual assemblies; 5) arranging teaching circuits, and pioneer settlement projects; 6) planning and conducting teaching conferences; 7) fostering youth teaching; 8) teaching on college campuses; 9) encouraging teaching and enrolling a greater number of believers from minority groups, especially Chinese, Japanese, Spanish-speaking peoples, Negroes, and off-reservation American Indians; and, 10) carrying out other national teaching activities as needed and approved by the National Spiritual Assembly.

The two committees will work in very close cooperation. Two members will serve on both committees in order to foster this cooperation and to avoid duplication and confusion of effort.

The staff headquarters of both committees is located in Wilmette, and correspondence should be addressed as follows:

National Teaching Committee or

Community Development Committee 112 Linden Ave. Wilmette, Ill. 60091

When the election of the committee officers has been announced, the names of the secretaries are to be added to the above address.

Bahá’í Youth to Study

Nine-Year Plan

The Bahá’í Youth of the Rocky Mountain States will host a Regional Youth Conference at the Rocky Mountain Mennonite Camp near Divide, C010,, August 31 through September 5. The purpose of the Conference is to inspire Bahá’í youth to organize and coordinate their efforts more closely with the goals of the Nine-Year Plan, to acquaint the youth with the world-embracing aspects of the Faith, both spiritually and administratively, commensurate with the accelerated home front teaching program, and to unite the youth more harmoniously with the adult Bahá’í world. Since one of the major goals of the Nine-Year Plan is to greatly increase the number of people enrolled under the Banner of Bahá’u’lláh, the youth are encouraged to bring their friends to this very stimulating event.

The cost for the entire week is $20.00. Advance reservations with a $5.00 deposit must be sent to: Miss Karen Jensen, 1233 Cumberland, Colorado Springs, Colo.

Council Fire to Be Held at Neah Bay

The Makah Indian Reservation Council Fire will be held August 1 and 2. Registration fee includes camping facilities, salmon bake and breakfast. Fee of $1.50 for adults and $.50 for children should be sent, as early as possible, to: Ted Ruys, Rt. 2, Box 2520, Bainbridge Island, Washington.

A Preliminary Bibliography on the Negro and Civil Rights

From time to time the National Spiritual Assembly will suggest, for the information and interest of the Bahá’ís, books, essays, novels and studies on the Negro and on human rights movements and activities. The

[Page 2]following is a preliminary bibliography which includes novels, plays and stories as well as other types of materials which should be available in any well stocked public library and through most local book stores. Other titles will be added in future issues of the U.S. SUPPLEMENT.

A. Biography, Essays

1. Black Like Me, by John Howard Griffin, New York. The New American Library (A Signet paperback), 1961. $.50 (The arresting report of a white man who darkened his skin and lived as a Negro in the South)

2. Notes of a Native Son, by James Baldwin. Boston, Beacon Press, 1955. (Poignant essays on the Negro’s situation in American life)

3. Nobody Knows My Name, by James Baldwin. New York, Dial Press, 1961. (More essays)

4. The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin. New York, Dial Press, 1963. (More essays)

5. The Angry Black South, edited by Glenford Mitchell and William Peace, III. New York, Corinth Books, 1962. (A collection of essays on civil rights movements and the involvement of college students)

6. De Dissent, edited by Hoke Norris. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1962. (A collection of essays by Southern whites on the civil rights question)

7. A Southern Prophecy, by Lewis H. Blair (edited with an introduction by C. Vann Woodward). Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1964. (Written in 1889 by a white Virginian under the title: “The Prosperity of the South Dependent on the Elevation of the Negro”)

B. Studies & Scientific Materials & History

1. Before the Mayflower: A History of the Negro in America, 1619-1962, by Lerone Bennett. Chicago, Johnson Publishing Co., 1962.

2. The Negro Vanguard, by Richard Bardolph. New York, Vintage Books, 1961. (A chronicle of Negro achievements from colonial times to the present)

3. The Question of Race in Modern Science, New York, UNESCO, 1956. (A series of pamphlets on several facets of the race question)

4. Race, Prejudice, and Education, by Cyril Bibby, New York, Praeger, 1960.

5. Prejudice and Your Child, by Kenneth Bancroft Clark. Boston, Beacon Press, 1955. (An examination of the damaging effects of discrimination on children by a noted psychologist)

6. The Souls of Black Folk, by W. E. B. DuBois. Greenwich, Conn., Fawcett Publications, 1961. (A summation of the aims and aspirations of the Negro American)

7. The Negro Revolt, by Louis Lomax. New York, Harper, 1962. (An exposition of the young Negro’s attitude toward civil rights)

8. The Voices of Negro Protest in America, by H. Haywood Burns. New York, Oxford University

JULY ‘1964

Press, 1963. (A brief account of civil rights organizations and their activities in the U.S.)

C. Novels & Plays & Stories

1. Go Tell It on the Mountain, by James Baldwin. New York, The New American Library (A Signet Book), 1953. (Story of the author’s boyhood in Harlem)

2. Black Boy, by Richard Wright. New York, Harper, 1945. (A record of the author’s childhood)

3. Native Son, by Richard Wright. New York, The New American Library (A Signet paperback), 1950. (A novel about a Negro’s bitter struggle to survive ghetto life in Chicago)

4. Laughing to Keep from Crying, by Langston Hughes. New York, Holt, 1952. (Short stories by prominent poet and author)

5. .4 Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry. New York, The New American Library (A Signet paperback), 1959. (A Broadway hit about life in a Chicago ghetto)

D. Periodicals

1. Ebony, published monthly by Johnson Publications, Chicago. (Available at newsstands and drug stores)

2. New South, published 11 times a year by the Southern Regional Council, 5 Forsyth St., N.W., Atlanta 3, Georgia. Subscription: $2.00 a year.

In Memoriam

Lawrence P. Gimlin Campe Verde, Arizona March 21, 1964

Harry S. King Las Vegas, Nevada May 11, 1964

Richard Nolen

Tacoma, Wash. May 5, 1964

Bahá’í Marriages

Birmingham, Alabama: Mrs. Barbara Bent Lyons to Robert E. Fox on January 24, 1964

Antelope Jud. Dist., Calif; Mrs. Ruth Westberg to Otto A. Hannemann on March 8, 1964

. San Francisco, Calif; Miss Jeanette Meinzer to Allan Murray

on April 4, 1964

Royal Oak, Michigan: Miss Carol Ann Voeffray to Donald L. Johnson on March 21, 1964

Teaneck, New Jersey: Miss Jean Ann Praschil to Behrooz Modarai on April 4, 1964

Hamburg, New York: Miss Kathryn Potter to Paul H. Dailey on April 4, 1964

Honolulu. Hawaii: Miss Katherine Kirie Darby to Roy Fernie on April 20, 1964