Norman, Oklahoma
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Norman is a city in the US State of Oklahoma.
The Bahá’í Faith was established in the city as early as the 1940s with a community being firmly established by the 1970s.
History[edit]
Dr. Edris Rice-Wray visited Norman in 1945 where he spoke on the Faith to a meeting of the Student Union of the University of Oklahoma,[1] and as of 1946 Bahá’í literature was available in public libraries in the city.[2]
In 1975 a Bahá’í Unity Feast was held at the University of Oklahoma,[3] and in 1976 thirty Bahá’ís participated in a teaching campaign in the city.[4] As of 1978 there were approximately forty Bahá’ís living in Norman and that year they distributed 20,000 pamphlets to proclaim the Bahá’í Faith in the city and also paid for newspaper advertisements and went door to door to invite resident to Bahá’í public meetings.[5]
In 1979 a billboard designed by Bahá’í children in Norman was displayed for a month at the University of Oklahoma's College of Education,[6] and by 1983 a Bahá’í College Club had been established at the University which sponsored a Conference on the Bahá’í view of the word that year.[7] In 1989 the Local Spiritual Assembly of Norman was commended for consistently supporting the National Fund that year.[8]
In 1992 Project Blaze, a Bahá’í program for high school students promoting racial harmony, was used at schools in Norman.[9]
References[edit]
- ↑ Baha'i News (1946). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 180, Pg(s) 6. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1946). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 189, Pg(s) 14. View as PDF.
- ↑ The American Bahá’í (1975). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 6, Issue 12, pg(s) 8. View as PDF.
- ↑ The American Bahá’í (1976). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 7, Issue 5, pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
- ↑ The American Bahá’í (1978). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 9, Issue 1, pg(s) 3. View as PDF.
- ↑ The American Bahá’í (1979). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 10, Issue 2, pg(s) 8. View as PDF.
- ↑ The American Bahá’í (1983). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 14, Issue 9, pg(s) 9. View as PDF.
- ↑ The American Bahá’í (1989). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 20, Issue 7, pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
- ↑ Template:Citab
