May 19-21, 1921

"The American Baha’i community inaugurated its Race Amity movement in the nation’s capital, Washington DC, as “a practical effort to influence public discourse on race in the United States.” This came at a time when the “color line” between Black and white was drenched red with lynching and race riots that infected “Jim Crow” America with fear and dread."

Christopher Buck | May 21, 2021
Part 62 in Series The Universal Emancipation Proclamation

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