White and Negro Alike. Stories of Baha'i Pioneers Ellsworth and Ruth Blackwell [Kindle Edition]
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TextProducer: Amazon Digital Services 2011Abstract: Both living in Chicago, Ruth Browne and Ellsworth Blackwell independently researched through much reading and studying and then became members of the Baha’i Faith within a few months of one another in 1934. Married in 1937, they were the second United States inter-racial Baha’I couple to marry. In a cablegram, in 1939, the Guardian asked American Bahá’ís, “White and Negro alike,” to arise and move to foreign lands, especially to countries in the Caribbean and in Central America. Ellsworth and Ruth Blackwell volunteered to give up jobs and leave their home in Chicago and go where the need was greatest. In 1940, they were the first Bahá’í pioneers to move to Haiti, where they spent more than half of the next thirty-five years. Here are stories, many told in their own words, of the victories, as well as the challenges, they experienced in Haiti and in periods when they returned to Chicago between 1940 and 1975.
Both living in Chicago, Ruth Browne and Ellsworth Blackwell independently researched through much reading and studying and then became members of the Baha’i Faith within a few months of one another in 1934. Married in 1937, they were the second United States inter-racial Baha’I couple to marry. In a cablegram, in 1939, the Guardian asked American Bahá’ís, “White and Negro alike,” to arise and move to foreign lands, especially to countries in the Caribbean and in Central America. Ellsworth and Ruth Blackwell volunteered to give up jobs and leave their home in Chicago and go where the need was greatest. In 1940, they were the first Bahá’í pioneers to move to Haiti, where they spent more than half of the next thirty-five years. Here are stories, many told in their own words, of the victories, as well as the challenges, they experienced in Haiti and in periods when they returned to Chicago between 1940 and 1975.