Evelyn Bivins

Evelyn Lackey Bivins (October 5, 1903 - April 29, 1996) was an early American Bahá’í who served on the Regional Teaching Committee for Mississippi in the 1940s.

Biography[edit]

Bivins was born Evelyn Gilbert Lackey in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1903.[1] Her parents were Joseph Hampton Lackey and Sallie Maude Brown. In 1924 she married Henry Wright Bivins, Sr., and they had two sons and a daughter.[2]

As of 1930 Bivins had become a Bahá’í and that year she invited her Aunt Georgie Wiles to accompany her to the Green Acre Summer School inspiring Wiles to investigate and accept the religion.[3] At some point she pioneered to Greenwood, Mississippi, where she was the cities only Bahá’í resident and she actively taught the Faith in the city by delivering regular talks on local radio.[4] In 1940 she served as a delegate at the Mississippi Congress of Parents and Teachers delivering a talk on the Bahá’í Faith at the conference.[5]

In 1941 she was appointed to the Regional Teaching Committee for Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and West Tennessee,[6] and she became the committees Chairman in 1945.[7] In 1946 independent Regional Teaching Committees were appointed for each state and Bivins was appointed as the Chair of the Mississippi Teaching Committee,[8] serving until at least 1949.[9]

As of 1951 Bivins had moved to Gulfport, Mississippi, and that year she assisted the Local Spiritual Assembly of Jackson in organizing a Bahá’í exhibit to proclaim and promote the Bahá’í Faith in the city.[10] In 1959 and 1960 she wrote articles for the magazine International Language Review on the Bahá’í principle of an international language,[11][12] and in 1961 she remarried to Floyd Barnes Hardin, the editor of the magazine.[13]

In 1996 Bivins passed away in Leesburg, Florida.[14]

Publications[edit]

  • 1943 - God's Promise Is Fulfilled, article published in World Order magazine.[15]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lackey-1210
  2. ↑ https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lackey-68
  3. ↑ Baha'i News (1935). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 94, Pg(s) 6. View as PDF.
  4. ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1945). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. Wilmette, Ill. Volume 9 (1940-1944), Pg(s) 833. View as PDF.
  5. ↑ Baha'i News (1940). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 138, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
  6. ↑ Baha'i News (1941). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 141, Pg(s) 11. View as PDF.
  7. ↑ Baha'i News (1945). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 177, Pg(s) 5. View as PDF.
  8. ↑ Baha'i News (1946). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 190, Pg(s) 8. View as PDF.
  9. ↑ Baha'i News (1949). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 224, Pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
  10. ↑ Baha'i News (1951). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 250, Pg(s) 10. View as PDF.
  11. ↑ Baha'i News (1960). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 348, Pg(s) 17. View as PDF.
  12. ↑ Baha'i News (1961). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 358, Pg(s) 8. View as PDF.
  13. ↑ Baha'i News (1961). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 366, Pg(s) 14. View as PDF.
  14. ↑ https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lackey-1210
  15. ↑ https://bahai.works/index.php?title=File:World_Order_Vol8_Issue11.pdf&page=3
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