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Jeynne Marie Stapleton

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Jeynne Marie Stapleton (1884 - 1963), born Jeane Marie Church, was one of the African Americans to join the Bahá'í Faith before the Ascension of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, that is by 1921. In 1936 Stapleton filled out a survey of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States, then including Canada, which is today called the Bahá'í Historical Record Survey. She did so in Minneapolis, Minnesota. From this and other sources some of her life story has been recovered. She was born outside of Nashville in Williamsport Tennessee, March 7, 1884. Very little is known for certain - there is evidence of a young marriage, and, for that matter, being a widow at a young age too. By the age of 32 she had encountered the Faith and by the age of 36 was a Bahá'í in Minneapolis. Still fairly little of her life is known until about the 1930s when she began to be elected in various ways - as delegate to the national convention or member of the local assembly and occasionally as chair. She explored service in the religion to the Dakotas before she arose to homefront pioneer to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, along with fellow Minneapolan Ella Steinmetz and others from other locations and together raised an assembly as part of the goals of the First Seven Year Plan under Shoghi Effendi in 1943. Now styling herself as "Jeynne", this is where she would stay the rest of her life. In addition to her life long activities in Sioux Falls, she undertook two tours in the country incorporating Bahá'í activities and attended major national gatherings in 1944 and 1953 to commemorate milestone centenaries of the religion. She was often elected to further local service even while the Bahá'í community of Sioux Falls grew and also gave talks and was host for events. The last few months of her life her home address was the point of contact of a advertisement campaign of activities.

Biography[edit]

Early years[edit]

Her birth name was Jeanne Marie Church[1][2][3] though she was often known as Mary by her kin in later years.

In 1936 she was known as Jeane Marie Stapleton,[4] when she filled out the Bahá'í Historical Record Survey. She described herself as a light skinned colored “negro”, born in Williamsport Tennessee, March 7, 1884, and was raised in Church of Christ Disciples.[4] As an example of the racial tensions of the location consider that in later years her home county was the scene of a 1946 riot where blacks defended themselves. The area had many churches, including several Church of Christ congregations some of whom date to the 19th Century; one is specifically in Williamsport today: The Arrow Rock Church of Christ.[5]

From looking at what she shared of her early years, limited as it is, and this last name from her kin, and the names of these kin, a possible family would be that of James and Laura Church, known in the neighboring county to her birth in later years.[6] However Stapleton herself seems to have gone through harsh times indeed. A 1930 census lists her as having been married by age 14,[7] which may account for why she wasn't listed on the 1900 Census with her parents. These years remain otherwise undocumented, so far.

In Minnesota[edit]

She joined the Bahá'ís in 1920 in Minneapolis after interest in 1916,[4] and widow before 1936.[4] We have no definitive evidence she was in Minneapolis in 1916 - just that she "became interested in 1916, but I don't think I can call myself a true believer until 1920…".[4] It is unclear yet what was/were her early connections with the Faith but in 1916 in Minneapolis there was a major New Thought conference at which there was a prominent presentation of the Bahá'ís by Albert H. Hall,[8] and there was coverage in the African American newspaper The Appeal at the time and had some coverage of Bahá'ís since 1918 mentioning the "no color line" approach to the religion with the election of Louis G. Gregory to its national governing body,[9] and again in 1920 saying "The Bahai sect is one of the few religions which practice the brotherhood of man in its fullness."[10] and "The Bahaist faith is different from the larger Christian sects in that it not only believes in, but practices, the brotherhood of man. To Christians, except a few of the smaller sects, a colored man is a 'nigger'; to the Bahaists he is a brother in fact."[11] Indeed Gregory came to Minneapolis in October 1921[12] and presentations continued in 1922 before black women's groups in 1922,[13] and by Martha Root in 1923.[14]

Stapleton's status as a widow seems to date back at least back to 1930.[7] She was then employed, during the Great Depression, as a servant living with the Bursch family of Germany. Albert F. Bursch owned the home worth $6000, more than $93,000 in today's terms.[15] and owned a radio, a burgeoning young technology then gaining popularity,[16] and arrived in the US in 1882; he worked at a Creamery while one child was a stenographer. Stapleton was categorized as “white”; she marked she was “light colored” on the Bahá'í Historical Record Survey she filled out in 1936.[4] Apparently she could pass as white.

Rising actions[edit]

In 1934 Stapleton was the state delegate to the national convention from Minneapolis.[17] In 1936 she was listed as the chair of Minneapolis Assembly.[18] She then arose on her first documented trip including for the promulgation of the religion. In 1939 Stapleton was in the area of Fisk University at the YWCA for joint services, at which she recalled her connection to the religion back to 1916 in Nashville newspapers.[19]

But her sights were rising with the First Seven Year Plan which included a goal of founding a spiritual assembly in every state of the country.[20] In 1942 she was noted assisting youth in North Dakota along with Dahela Abbas.[21]

Pioneer to Sioux Falls, South Dakota[edit]

Spelling her name now as "Jeynne", Stapleton pioneered for Seven Year Plan from Minneapolis to Sioux Falls[22] along with fellow Minneapolan Ella Steinmetz. The first spiritual assembly of Sioux Falls included Stapleton.[23] In 1944 she was among the Bahá'ís from Sioux Falls going to national convention,[24] which would have been part of centenary observance of the Declaration of the Báb, despite the limitations of travel during World War II.[25] About 900 were planned on attending the convention and some 1600 plus attended the final meeting at what was then called the Hotel Stevens including attendees from Central and South America.[26] Delegates and guests would get a specific printed program,[27] and a full text was indeed produced summarizing the first Bahá'í century,[28] and there was a special radio program.[29] Earlier that year the Sioux Falls Bahá'ís had noted President Abraham Lincoln's birthday,[30] aided founding the local chapter of the NAACP,[31] and presenting speakers at the meetings.[32] The Bahá'ís began noting the Centenary in early May.[33] The newspaper reported on the convention back in Sioux Falls in June speaking of its international presence such as by Hilda Yen.[34] Prominent African-American Helen Elsie Austin was also part of the presentations.[35]

Frances B. Edelstein also moved to area. She noted “The next post was Sioux Falls, South Dakota. This was one of those vast prairie states where Lutherans were predominant and Sioux Falls was the home of Augustana Lutheran College. It took ?4 [sic; not clear if it is 14 or 4] years to have a native L.S.A. and I was there 7 years--being its first secretary. As I became more acclimated, I realized the impossibility of reaching out into all that vast expanse and pursued the idea of radio. We were one of the first pioneer states to have a radio program.

The radio station was comparatively new and its wavelength reached just the state of South Dakota. We wrote our own scripts, picked music to go with it, and paid for it ourselves. It was a half-hour program on Saturday morning. One of our pioneers, Jean Stapleton, whom we lovingly called Stapie, was the best voice to broadcast. We were all tested. Mine (my voice) was good too, but since I was committee chairman with many other duties I didn't want that one, and was more than happy to have Stapie, especially because she was Negro. All of this was at the end of the first 7-year plan and the beginning of the second (over 40 years ago).”[36] This seems to have been on radio KELO (AM),[37] following the appearance of Bahá'í traveling speaker Reginald King.[38]

Stapleton's wider travels[edit]

In addition to her work in Sioux Falls Stapleton began to travel wider. In 1945 she undertook a tour briefly stated in the newspapers including visiting kin in St. Louis, Nashville, and speaking at a college in Memphis.[39] Unfortunately nothing more is known of this tour,

but then that winter Stapleton was part of the convening committee for the state convention of Bahá’ís to elect their delegate to the national convention.[40] The following spring Stapleton chaired the observance of the Declaration of the Bab for the community.[41]

The summer of 1946 Stapleton undertook another trip - this time to the Geyserville Bahá'í School, (the precursor of the Bosch Bahá'í School,) in Geyserville, California, and visiting a niece in Colorado Springs between earlier July and mid-September.[42] The previous year 250 people attended opening ceremonies including talks by Firuz Kazemzadeh, African American Sadie Ellis, (mother of Adrianne and Wilma Ellis,) addressed the group with her newly married daughter Adrienne, (Chinese Hawaiian) Anthony Seto, Ruth Moffett and many others.[43] Many of them returned in 1946 along with pioneers to various homefront goal areas like herself.[44] Some three sessions of classes were offered including a focus on youth.[45] Three hundred attended this opening day ceremony with a welcome by later Hand of the Cause Amelia Collins, then a member of the National Spiritual Assembly, and a talk by Arthur Dahl Jr., all filmed by Victor Alexander,[46] along with Orcella Rexford as well as an early Alaskan Bahá'í.[47] In mid-July Stanford graduates gave a talk at Geyserville; Farrukh Ioas and Isobel Locke began youth sessions,[48] which were featured,[49] though then overshadowed by the death of John D. Bosch[50] which was followed by the unexpected news that Orcella Rexford had died as well.[51] Late in the school year Firuz Kazemzadeh gave further talks.[52]

Back in Sioux Falls[edit]

Back in South Dakota Stapleton gave the program for the community observance of the Birth of Bahá’u’lláh.[53] A few months later the Bahá'ís held a society dinner chaired by Stapleton at which guest speaker Lakota Indian Stephen Jones, an Episcopalian minister who had graduated from the Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois, in 1938, and was about to serve on the Cheyenne River Reservation,[54] spoke.[55] This was soon followed by news of William Randolph Lacey giving a talk at a reception at which Stapleton again chaired and Steinmetz introduced.[56] In March Stapleton gave the entertainment portion of the Bahá'í reception for Fritzi Shaver, Ella Steinmetz' sister,[57] who was visiting.[58] Stapleton then introduced the speaker for the community Naw-Rúz observance.[59]

At present theres is a gap in mention of events in 1948. In 1949 a newspaper mention noted Stapleton was elected treasurer of assembly which continued into 1951.[60] Stapleton was elected in 1952 again and this time was returning to the national convention.[61] In June Stapleton's was among homes hosting regional meetings of Bahá'ís,[62] and was among the Bahá'ís from Sioux Falls that attended the dedication of the Wilmette House of Worship[63] and an "All-America" intercontinental conference into early May,[64] all timed with the close of the Jubilee Year, the centenary of Bahá'u'lláh's experience of revelation.[65] Rúhíyyih Khánum presented the message of the Guardian.[66] There was also the announcement of the Ten Year Crusade. During the year three members of the national assembly decided to pioneer - Dorothy Baker, William Kenneth Christian, and Matthew Bullock.[67] This was also the year of the death of Stapleton's brother R. E. (Bob Ed) Church.[1]

The 1954 Sioux Falls community observance of the Birth of the Báb and UN Week was with a talk given by Stapleton.[68] The following community observance of the Birth of Bahá'u'lláh was chaired by Stapleton.[69] In 1955 Stapleton joined with Sioux Falls Bahá'ís going to the national convention.[70] In October Stapleton wrote a letter to editor of the Argus-Leader for UN Day.[71]

Her sister's husband died in January 1956.[2] Late in the year Stapleton was at the state convention to elect a delegate and gave a talk.[72]

There is again a gap in coverage of Stapleton this time covering 1957 to early 1959.

Last years[edit]

In the spring of 1959 and 1960 Stapleton was again elected to assembly.[73] Late in the year a niece of hers died.[3] Stapleton and others then accompanied the state delegate to the national convention.[74] In 1961 Stapleton gave a talk on the Oneness of Humanity in January,[75] and hosted the Ridván meeting.[76]

She had been ill sometime before summer 1961 and was released from the hospital by late September.[77] She was again elected to the assembly in 1962.[78]

Stapleton's home address[79] was the contact point for a series of advertisements for people to seek further inquiry from late 1962 into early 1963.[80]

She soon died - January 17, 1963.[79][81] Her gravesite is known and bears the inscription:

She lived for the glory of God
Baha Ullah[82]

References[edit]

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  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Barnes - Dr. J. T". The Tennessean. Nashville, Tennessee. 30 Jan 1956. p. 18. Retrieved Mar 10, 2020.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Thompson - Mrs. Lillian Watkins…". Nashville Banner. Nashville, Tennessee. 22 Sep 1959. p. 24. Retrieved Mar 10, 2020.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Email from Edward Sevcik, Archivist U.S. National Bahá’í Archives, 1233 Central Street, Evanston, Ill. 60201 Email: archives@usbnc.org with subject line "Re: a review of the African-American Bahá'ís by the Ascension of 'Abdu'l-Bahá", to Steven Kolins, dated March 2, 2020, cc'ed to Dr. Christopher Buck.
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