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At 14, Richard (Ricky) Abercrombie was besieged by prejudice because of his multi-racial background and angered by unsatisfactory answers to his heartfelt questions about religious truth. The time was 1960, and the place was Greenville, South Carolina. Ricky began carrying a gun, skipping school, and numbing his painful emotions with alcohol. His parents were worried and his future looked bleak. What happened next – an invitation to a birthday party at the home of a Bahá’í family – changed his life forever. Ricky became intrigued by Bahá’í teachings on racial equality, peaceful strategies for social justice, and the fundamental unity of religion. As he investigated these teachings, Ricky experienced a profound spiritual awakening that led him to give up the gun, stop drinking, and engage in life with hope and joy. His friends and family initially opposed his dangerous new association with racially integrated groups, but Ricky’s steadfastness drew them into investigating his new beliefs themselves. This true story of how a rebellious teenager transformed his own character and affected the lives of dozens of friends and family members is a cover-to-cover delight.
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Compiler: Littlebrave BeastonProduct Code: AIBFISBN: 9781974372676Availability: In stock
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This book serves as an excellent reference guide or research tool for
anyone looking to deepen on the history of American Indians role and
involvement in the Bahá’í Faith and community.
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Compiler: Littlebrave BeastonProduct Code: AIBFPSISBN: 9781717399120Availability: In stock
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A compilation of stories by American Indians who are members of the Bahá’í Faith, written in their own words. Being free to write and share in their own words and formats, seven American Indian Bahá’ís tell the story of their backgrounds, how they became Bahá’ís, their life adventures, and how this Faith works for them. These stories are meant to show the unique personal stories of Bahá’ís coming from American Indian backgrounds, including the many challenges and joys they’ve faced when accepting and integrating a new religion into their traditional cultural and spiritual beliefs and practices.
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Product Code: SBMGDAvailability: In stock
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This 26-minute video reviews the 25-year history of the Black Men's Gathering and was produced under the auspices of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States.
The Universal House of Justice in 2012 described the Bahá'í Black Men's Gathering as "a vibrant and spirited enterprise, which has assisted contingents of African American men to deal with certain obstacles confronting them, to foster a sense of fellowship and kindle their faith and commitment to Bahá'u'lláh, and to encourage them to find an effective part to play within the recent series of Plans."
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Author: Janet Ruhe-SchoenProduct Code: COTISBN: 978-1-61851-081-5Publisher: Baha'i Publishing Trust, USAAvailability: In stock
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Taking as its focus the years 1898–1921, Champions of Oneness portrays the lives of a handful of brilliant pioneers of race amity in the United States who gave everything they could to promote the principle of the oneness of humanity. The thread common among each of their lives was the Bahá’í Faith.
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Author: National Race Unity CommitteeProduct Code: CPUPublisher: Baha'i Publishing Trust of the United StatesPages: 51Availability: In stock
Price: $4.95
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A 19-lesson study guide to The Power of Unity. This is based on a four-step method of learning (prayer, meditation, study, and action), intending to stimulate active change. The lessons lend themselves to study by individuals or groups through weekend study groups, workshops or schools.
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Author: Nathan RutsteinProduct Code: FGETISBN: 978-1-931847-46-9Publisher: Baha'i PublishingPages: 250Availability: In stock
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From a Gnat to an Eagle is the story of Nathan Rutstein's life in his own humble words, a story of spiritual transformation and personal triumph. The child of Jewish immigrants in the Bronx, Nathan Rutstein was raised in a home devoid of books and ran the streets with gangs as a youth.
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Editors: Nathan Rutstein, Michael MorganProduct Code: HRERSISBN: 978-0-963300-737
Publisher: Whitcomb PublishingPages: 361Availability: In stock
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Written by 16 Baha'i experts in race relations & eyewitnesses to the ravages of racial prejudice. Defines this national disease & tells how to diminish racism's effects through classroom education emphasizing the oneness of humanity and the cousinship of all human beings. Inspirational guidebook for teachers & parents from early grades through college.
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Author: Robert MazibukoProduct Code: ISABISBN: 9781940135014Publisher: One Voice Press, LLCPages: 113Availability: In stock
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In South Africa, during the harsh years of Apartheid between the years of 1948 and the 1990s, racial discrimination was at its peak. Gathering together was restricted, and certain meetings between Blacks and Whites were forbidden. Under the strictures of culture and government, though, people of different races were finding ways to collaborate for social and spiritual betterment. Author and translator Robert Mazibuko, a black South African, shares his personal accounts of teaching the Bahá'í Faith in South Africa, in partnership with Lowell Johnson, a white American. In Spite of All Barriers offers insight into how people working in unity can effect great change.
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This groundbreaking work uncovers a piece of history that until now has gone unwritten-the role played by Black people in the emergence of the Bahá'í Faith in North America. Drawing on a wide range of sources including personal essays, letters, and journals, it offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of some extraordinary individuals who devoted themselves to a common cause and made outstanding contributions toward building a unified society.
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A white couple's personal account of a ten-year journey that forced them to reconsider their comfortable notions about race as they forged new relationships with people of African descent. Their stories describe a longing to heal from the racial separation that has so deeply wounded this country.
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Authors: David Douglas, Barbara DouglasProduct Code: MBWTISBN: 978-1-931847-04-9Publisher: Baha'i PublishingAvailability: In stock
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Some marriages become symbols of hope for a promising future. "My parents broke one of the strongest taboos in our society and thereby became outcasts in their native land. This is their story." -David Douglas
A powerful story about the marriage of a Black man and a White woman, Marriage beyond Black and White offers a poignant and sometimes painful look at what it was like to be an interracial couple in the United States from the early 1940s to the mid-1990s.
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