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Sarah Pereira
BornDecember 12, 1909
Cleveland, Ohio
DiedApril 5, 1995
Matthews, N.C., USA
NSA memberUSA
1961 - 1973
ABMAmericas
1954 - 1963
CounsellorNorth America
1973 - 1980
Americas
1980 - 1985
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Sarah Elizabeth Martin Eason Pereira (December 12, 1909 - April 5, 1995) was an American Bahá'í who served on the US National Spiritual Assembly and as a Counsellor for North America and the Americas.

Her father was Alexander H. Martin and mother Mary E. Brown Martin and mother Mary was the first connection to the Faith for the family. As a pre-youth she was named first in a tablet from ‘Abdu’l-Bahá addressed to the Cleveland Bahá'í community in 1919. She went on to achieve a number of scholarly posts and several inside the Faith as well. She may have been the first Bahá'í to live in Raleigh, NC and there is evidence of a small community there while she worked at Shaw University from 1933 after earning a Bachelors in Romance Languages from Ohio State University in 1931.

She married and had a son later known as Carlos and promoted the Faith. However the marriage soon ended and by 1944 when she was noted in the Washington DC area including teaching at Miner Teacher’s College and at Howard University before returning back to Cleveland by 1946 and acquired the last name Pereira that would be hers the rest of her life. She contributed editorial work to Baha'i World volumes 11 and 12 and gave talks on the religion. Then she also taught at Fenn College in Cleveland until 1952. In 1954 she was appointed as an Auxiliary Board member for North America and her travels expanded. In 1957 she was Department Chair of Romance Languages at West Virginia State College. In 1961 she was elected to the United States National Spiritual Assembly and served until she was appointed as a Continental Counselor for North America in 1973.

In 1973 Sarah was Head of the Romance Languages Department at Washington DC Teacher’s College until 1979-1980 and also retired as Counselor in 1985 with travels to many countries for raising up new national assemblies, centers, and schools. In retirement she gave a talk that got a lot of attention at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and contributed to an oral history archive. She died after some years of service on the Charlotte, NC, spiritual assembly. She was one of four African or African Americans to serve at the highest levels of the religion to live in North Carolina, and the only one (?) from Ohio.


Mother Mary Elizabeth Brown Martin[edit]

Sarah's mother Mother Mary's story is the entrance to the Bahá'í Faith so we start with her.

Daughter Lydia's biography was writted in 1973 and then published in Lights of the Spirit: Historical Portraits of Black Bahá'ís in North America, 1898-2004.[1] (LOTS) It maintains Mary Brown Martin was born in Raleigh and her parents were slaves. He was a lawyer and they owned their home. Young Mary was friends with the neighborhood garbage collector who was a girl only alittle older than herself. At nine (1886) the Brown family moved to Cleveland. In Cleveland she took singing and piano classes in addition to regular school classes and sang at the school commencement and was a member of the Mt Zion Congregational Church and singing in the choir. She went to Flora Stone Mather College (for Women) of the Western Reserve University and then a Normal School before receiving an appointment as a teacher academy for Negroes in Cotton Plant, Arkansas for two years before marrying Alexander Hamilton Martin. According to Ancestry.com he was born abt 1873 in Ironton, Ohio. His father was Jacob Martin and mother was Lydia Calloway. Staying at home after marriage she still did some tutoring of immigrants in English and also took part in the suffrage movement in Cleveland. She learned of the Baha’i Faith in 1913 in Cleveland shortly after Abdu’l-Baha’s visit in 1912.[1] Mary's home was known for Baha’i activities.[1]

More details are in her obit in the Cleveland Gazette[2] Born May 31, 1877 in Raleigh to Winfield Scott and Jane Curtis Brown among 6 other children. Attended “old Rockwell school” which became the School Administration Building and then the Sterling School. She attended Central High where her 4 children also went. Mary graduated from Cleveland Normal School in 1903, then went south to teach at St. Mark’s Episcopal School in Birmingham, Alabama and Cotton Plant Academy (Presbyterian) Arkansas. She returned to Cleveland and married A. H. Martin in 1905.

We don’t know Mary's story joining the Faith - Cleveland was an active community by 1910 at least with prominent families of Swingle and Peekes being mentioned in older references. The American Bahá'í biography of Sarah Martin Pereira maintains that her parents heard a talk by Louis Gregory in 1913.[3] Pauline Hannen visited Cleveland in 1917 and mentioned that they implemented children’s classes quickly based on guidance from the DC assembly.[4] However in 1919 there is also a tablet to Roy Williams, care of Mr. Hannen, of tests of the covenant sapping energy of the Cleveland community,[5] and presents a compilation of texts, another briefer tablet is noted along the same lines.[6]

There is mention that Mary was a representative from the Minerva Club to the investigation department of the local Council of Women’s clubs in 1916.[7]

The Martin entire family including in-laws is among those listed in a mass signatory letter to `Abdu’l-Bahá in August 1, 1919 issue of Star of the West.[8] — “Mary B. Martin, Lydia J. Martin, Sarah E. Martin, Alexander H. Martin Jr, Stuart B. Martin, Jane M. Brown (Mary’s mother), Sarah T. Mason (Mary’s sister??), Alexander H. Martin” - note Sarah Mason is noted living with the family in 1910 and seems to be a grandmother and the last entry would have been Sarah’s father, a black lawyer in Cleveland.

LOTS notes that in the 1920s Mary went back to work in a local school.[1]

There is a notice Mary was part of a group that gave a program for the Minerva Reading Club - members presenting were “Mrs. H. K. Price, Mrs. C. F. Nickens, Mrs. Mary Martin, Mrs. Hazel Walker, Miss Blanche Johnson.”[9][10]

There is a notice of a talk by Mary at the “Cedar Y” of Cleveland on “The modern method of rearing children” for the Mother’s Club.[11]

She was urged to run for Cleveland School Board and in 1929 won a four year term and was elected again in 1933.[1][12] She skipped the next cycle (which must have changed from 4 yrs) when a daughter (must have been Sarah's) was getting married but ran and won again in 1939.[13] But she died two weeks later, Nov 19, 1939.[2] Her death notice also appears in Baha’i News.[14]

In 1965 Mary B. Martin Elementary School was named in her honor.[1] This also appears in Baha’i News.[15]

Sarah Elizabeth Martin Eason Pereira[edit]

Sarah Martin is listed first in a tablet of `Abdu’l-Bahá from 1919 care of Mrs. Kibby of Cleveland Ohio. Sarah would have been 9-10 yrs old.[16] This tablet lists many of the Martin family among the community in Cleveland - Sarah, Alexander H, Lydia, Stuart B, Mrs Mary E. In it `Abdu’l-Bahá praises the training of children and that each child become “an ignited candle of the world of humanity” and forwarded their request for pen-pall contact with Bahá'ís in Persia.

Noted as earning a BA from Ohio State in 1931 in Languages, and “appointed from Shaw Univ, NC”,[17] (she is listed as a faculty at Shaw in 1933-1934.)[18]

She was noted studying at the Western Reserve Univ in Ohio, 1934-35,[17] while still working at Shaw.[19] She earned a MA from Western Reserve in 1935,[17] again while working at Shaw.[20]

Shoghi Effendi, who was named ‘Abdu’l-Bahá's successor, wrote a cable on May 1, 1936 to the Bahá'í Annual Convention of the United States and Canada, and asked for the systematic implementation of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá's vision to begin.[21] In his cable he wrote:

"Appeal to assembled delegates ponder historic appeal voiced by 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Tablets of the Divine Plan. Urge earnest deliberation with incoming National Assembly to insure its complete fulfillment. First century of Bahá'í Era drawing to a close. Humanity entering outer fringes most perilous stage its existence. Opportunities of present hour unimaginably precious. Would to God every State within American Republic and every Republic in American continent might ere termination of this glorious century embrace the light of the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh and establish structural basis of His World Order."[22]

Following this, Baha’i News notes Lydia and Sarah were in Raleigh possibly in 1936? at least early 1937.[23]

Eason marriage and Raleigh North Carolina[edit]

In the later Spring of 1937 Sarah married Charles Reginald Eason of Shaw University in a high profile wedding.[24] Participants in the wedding included a Shaw University professor and a Tuskegee student. Edna White is noted from Durham. The best man was Shaw Dean, Foster P. Payne. A reception was held by Dr. and Mrs. A. M. Brown (Sarah’s mother's family?) from Birmingham, and Mr. Payne of Raleigh and Lula Gee of Cleveland. The newspaper article notes Sarah had Phi Beta Kappa membership. Charles, born in 1905,[25] is not listed in 1937-8 at Shaw though he had various responsibilities since 1933, such as “acting dean of men”, while also holding the position of professor of mathematics.[26] and had with a BS and MS from Rutgers U., kin from Rich Square, NC, an adult son[27] and many committee responsibilities.[28] Sarah was listed as Shaw faculty in 1937.[29]

Sarah Martin Eason was called an isolated believer in Raleigh NC in June 1938, in the Baha'i News who was visited/supported by Terah Cowart Smith and Marguerite Reimer (perhaps less than a year before marrying William Sears.)[30] They were able to present at Shaw University and had contacts in Durham. She’s listed as an instructor in French at Shaw in 1938,[31] along with various university committees.[32] Sarah was elected president of the Negro College Women's Association of Raleigh,[33] and noted at a sorority function December 1938 in Raleigh.[34] She was still listed as faculty in 1939-40, albeit on leave, the year her mother died,[35] and 1941-2.[36][37] She is reported living in Raleigh in December 1940 in the Baha'i News,[38] serving on the NC/SC/Southern GA committee.[39] She reported there would be five believers in Raleigh that winter.[40] A 1940 Draft card notice from Ancestry.com places their residence on Blount St, Raleigh.[25] But since he continued to work at Shaw he must have had an exception to service. Their son Carlos, the first child of a Bahá'í born in the state and probably initially named Charles Reginald Eason Jr.,[41] was born October 9, 1940,[42][43] (he adopted the name Carlos Martin Pereira by about 1967-68.)[41][44] She is not listed in or after 1942 as Shaw faculty while Charles Reginald St is through 1947.[45] In 1942 Sarah was listed serving on committee for Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia.[46] and finished her PhD from Ohio State in 1942 in Romance languages.[17] In 1943 Sarah is listed as unable to serve on the Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia committee.[47]

In 1944 Sarah Martin Eason is listed as hailing from Washington DC while presenting at Greenacre with sister Lydia.[48] She published a journal review in 1944.[49] She had taught at Miner Teacher’s College in Washington DC and at Howard U. at night before 1946[43] and that year she was an instructor in Spanish at Cleveland College .[43]

Known as Pereira[edit]

Cleveland[edit]

Sarah next appears 1945 as Sarah Eason Pereira serving on the Green Acre committee.[50] And from 1946 she is employed and living in Cleveland; Dr. Pereira started as a part-time instructor of French and Spanish in 1946 at Fenn College,[51] named after Sereno Peck Fenn and eventually became Cleveland State University in 1964 and joined the University System of Ohio.[52] She was appointed an assistant professor in 1948.[51][53] In October 1946 Sarah Pereira commented on activity of Baha’is of Cleveland for the Baha'i News.[54]

In 1947-48 Sarah Martin Pereira is listed serving on the editorial board for the Baha’i World Vol 11.[55] She also did a small tour presenting talks for the Faith in 1948 - in Chicago,[56] and Mansfield, Ohio.[57] In 1949-50 she is listed on board for Baha’i World vol 12.[58] And again in 1950 there is a speaking tour - January talks in Oberlin, Ohio,[59] and she and her sister went to give institutes classes on the Faith in Latin America.[60]

In 1951 she was listed as an instructor in French and Spanish at Fenn College.[17] She was last listed in the College catalog for the 1952-1953 academic year.[51] She’s then also listed as a “general education board fellow” from North Carolina and Ohio in 1952 in Languages,[17] and gave a talk on the religion in Akron, Ohio in June 1952,[61] and again in 1954 in Mansfield.[62]

In January 1954 there is an interim election for the US national assembly and it listed Sarah Pereira down list of vote getters.[63] This was the first hint of a future in serving in Bahá'í Institutions.

Serving on institutions[edit]

In October 1954 Sarah is listed as an Auxiliary Board member and attended the Blue Ridge Conference held outside of Asheville, NC, to which 75 people attended.[64] The fact that she was among those appointed to the first board was communicated to state conventions of Bahá'ís in a letter later published in Baha'i News.[65]The facilities in the picture appear to be the Robert E. Lee Hall of the YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly.[66] In November 1954 another by-election is held and again Pereira was noted among other vote-getters.[67]

A photograph of the distinguished Martin African-American family was hung by the Guardian in the Mansion at Bahji as an indication of a significant milestone in the progress of the Faith.[3]

In 1955 she is more noted for traveling for the Faith - across West Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky on weekend trips and at least into November.[68] In 1956 Pereira gave a talk in Louisville, KY, in January,[69] and in March she gave presentations at WV State College classes as well as firesides in Beckley and meetings in her home.[70] That Fall she is again noted giving talks in Baltimore[71] She is listed as Department Chair of Romance Languages at West Virginia State College by the end of the year, while giving a talk in Durham, NC.[72] Similar travels are noted in 1957,[73] and 1958.[74] In February 1958 she was assigned to the Auxiliary Board of Protection.[75] Trips presenting talks on the Faith continue in 1959 including one at Fisk University invited by the widow of the president of the University.[76] And the Chicago Defender noted she was one of their top ten college women.[77]

In September 1960 she gave workshops in Haiti to support the National Assembly election.[78] November she aided Hand of the Cause Paul Haney in a presentation for the Birthday of Baha’u’llah.[79] In 1961, however, she was elected to the National Assembly,[80] still traveling giving talks,[81] and went to Haiti.[82] In 1961 she served as one of the faculty advisors for the Bahá'í Club at Tennessee State University.[83] While busy as Auxiliary Board and National Assembly member she also served on the Spiritual Assembly of Washington, D.C., from 1962-71.[3] Magdalene Carney credits Pereira with introducing her to the Faith around August of 1962, then Professor of Romance Languages at Tennessee State University.[84] Dr. Pereira gave Mag a pamphlet, "Modern Religion for Modern Man." It summarized the purpose of religion, outlined the essential features of a new religious system, and invited the reader to investigate its principles. Mag wrote, "By the time I finished reading, I believed in the new system: the Baha'i Faith. Unimaginable joy flooded my heart!" Carney would eventually be appointed a counselor near Pereira's retirement.

Pereira returned to Tennessee in 1963 to give a talk for the Bahá'í Club at Fisk University.[85] She continued to serve as Aux Board member until 1964[3] before the rule distinguishing such options as Auxiliary Board, Local Assembly, and National Assembly. She was noted in Ebony Magazine in 1965.[86] In 1967, six international conferences were set by the Universal House of Justice - one was held in Chicago and Pereira attended it. [87] and several National Assembly members including Pereira participated in a series of talks and a state convention with proclamation by Mayor John J. Barton of Indianapolis for a "Baha'i week".[88] In 1969 she gave a talk outside of Columbia, Maryland.[89] In 1970 she was living in DC and working at the Teacher’s College and gave a talk.[90] She served on the Spiritual Assembly of Silver Spring, Maryland, 1971-73.[3] In 1972 she helped the dedication of the LGI Institute in South Carolina.[91] LOTS says in 1973 Sarah was Head of the Romance Languages Department at Washington DC Teacher’s College and all the Martin family were active Baha'is: Lydia worked at Case Western Reserve University Library, brother Alexander H. Martin Hr was a lawyer in Cleveland, and Stuart Martin was a teacher in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, and various grandsons of Mary Brown Martin were noted.[1] Sarah's son Carlos Martin Pereira was noted as physics professor at University of Maryland in 1973 and as a special guest along with Lydia at election of NSA of Leeward/Winward and Virgin Islands.[44] And Sarah was appointed a continental counsellor for North America that summer.[92]

In 1974 she attended the Canadian[93] and US national conventions.[94] In May 1975 she attended a reception in honor of the 50th anniversary of the election of the US National Assembly.[95] She also signed a congratulatory telegram to Dr. Dorothy Nelson when she won a national legal award,[96] and attended a one of the two national conferences on promulgating the religion - specifically the Borckport, New York,[97] as well as the dedication and conference in Alaska for its new Center, (both in November.)[98] In 1976 she joined with the US National Assembly in praising the work of Charlotte Linfoot at the national convention.[99] In 1979 Sarah attended the US national convention,[100][101] and an international conference for Bahá'í Women in Brazil, (where her retirement from Washington DC Teacher’s College was mentioned too,) in 1980.[102] 1981 she attended the memorial services for Leonora Armstrong,[103] and the first election of the National Assembly of Bermuda,[104] and conferences and receptions around the event.[105] In December 1982 she attended a luncheon for 30 members of the US Congress in thanks for their support of a resolution about the treatment of Bahá'ís in Iran.[106] She attended the 1983 US national convention.[107] In 1984 she attended the election of the first National Assembly of Martinique,[108] followed by attending an international youth conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.[109] followed immediately by a conference in remembrance of Hand of the Cause Louis Gregory and integration issues in Nova Scotia.[110] In February 1985 she attended the Bahá'í-sponsored third annual 'Honor Kempton Awards Banquet' program in Alaska to which then governor William Sheffield and others attended.[111]

Retirement[edit]

She retired from being a Continental Counselor in 1985.[3] Ancestry.com has Sarah living near Charlotte around 1986. She was elected to the Assembly of Charlotte for some years.[3]

In retirement in 1990, Pereira, grandchild of slaves from North Carolina, gave a talk on race harmony as the fifth in the series of talks at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on March 21.[112] The talk by Pereira and piece profiling the Faith got notice - a letter to the editor was published two days later, March 23, heavily criticized the Bahá'ís for appearing to unify with Jesus Christ and perhaps even misquoting the Bible[113] but it was by far the largest non-Bahá'í comments on the Faith in the entire history of the Faith at UNC. Two letters to the editor and a cartoon were printed in response a week later, April 2nd, covering about 1/3rd of the page.[114]

In 1991 Pereira contributed the National Baha'i Archives oral history collection.[115]

Memorialization[edit]

Her grave stone has the Hidden Word beginning "My claim on thee is great…”.[116] The gravesite is very near latitude 35.187417, and longitude -80.770111.

On learning of her passing, the Universal House of Justice cabled:

Deplore irreparable loss stalwart promoter, vibrant teacher Cause God Sarah Martin Pereira. Radiant faith, indomitable spirit, cheerful disposition characterized her manifold outstanding Baha'i services for over six decades including homefront pioneering and membership first Auxiliary Board western hemisphere, National Spiritual Assembly United States, Continental Board Counselors Americas. Her achievements have left traces for generations to come. Confident her joyful reunion company her distinguished forebears and siblings Abha Kingdom. Praying Holy Threshold progress her soul divine worlds.

Advise hold memorial services her honor Mother Temple and throughout country.

The Universal House of Justice April 6, 1995[3]

The U.S. National Spiritual Assembly remembered Dr. Pereira with these words:

With saddened hearts we inform you of the passing early this morning in North Carolina of Dr. Sarah Martin Pereira. Her commitment to the Blessed Beauty for more than three-quarters of a century included membership on the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States from 1961 until 1973 when she was appointed by the Universal House of Justice to the Continental Board of Counselors. Dr. Pereira's unwavering devotion to the Cause of God can inspire every believer to greater service and is her legacy to each of us. Our prayers join yours that the soul of our beloved Sarah will find swift reunion with its Creator.
National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States April 5, 1995.[3]

See also[edit]

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References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Lydia Jane Martin (2006). "Mary Brown Marting: 1877-1939". In Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis; Richard Thomas (eds.). Lights of the Spirit: Historical Portraits of Black Bahá'ís in North America, 1898-2004. Baha'i Publishing Trust. pp. 283–288. ISBN 978-1-931847-26-1.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Mrs. Mary B. Martin Passes, Cleveland Gazette (Cleveland, Ohio) • 11-25-1939 • Page 1
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Pereira, The American Bahá'í, May 17, 1995
  4. ↑ * News from Washington, D. C., by Pauline Hannen, Star of the West, October 16, 1917, p. 149
    • (continued), by Pauline Hannen, Star of the West, October 16, 1917, pp. 152-3
  5. ↑ Roy Williams, by Abdu'l-Baha, translated by Shoghi Rabbani, July 18, 1919, Star of the West, Nov 23, 1919, pp. 271-2
  6. ↑ Henrietta Wagner, by Abdu'l-Baha, translated by Shoghi Rabbani Jan 10, 1919, Star of the West, Apr 9, 1919, pp. 32
  7. ↑ Additional Locals; Cleveland Gazette (Cleveland, Ohio) • 05-13-1916 • Page 3
  8. ↑ Supplication to Abdul-Baha from the American friends (Cleveland, Ohio), Star of the West, August 1, 1919, p. 160
  9. ↑ "Cleveland Social and Personal”, Cleveland Gazette (Cleveland, Ohio) • 05-23-1925 • Page 3
  10. ↑ For more on the club see Black History Archives, by Samuel Black, Crooked River; Exploring Social and Urban History, Issue 3, December 2000, Cleveland State University
  11. ↑ * ”Cleveland Social and Personal"; Cleveland Gazette (Cleveland, Ohio) • 12-12-1925 • Page 3
    • "Cleveland Social and Personal”, Cleveland Gazette (Cleveland, Ohio) • 12-26-1925 • Page 3
  12. ↑ “Ohioans rally at polls; G. O. P. elect 3 Negroes; Cleveland voters re-elect three; Democrats lose by heavy returns”, Plaindealer (Kansas City, Kansas) • 11-17-1933 • Page 2
  13. ↑ The following excerpt..., Cleveland Gazette, Nov 4, 1939, page 2
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  15. ↑ * Baha'i in the news; On December 29,…, Baha'i News, March, 1963, p. 15
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  20. ↑ Faculty, The Shaw Bulletin, April, 1935, p. 9
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  23. ↑ North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, by Georgie Brown Wiles, Mrs. Walter B. Guy, Lucille Hoke, E. Vogt, and Albert James Jr., Baha’i News, April, 1937, p. 14
  24. ↑ Martin-Eason nuptials attract many notables, The Pittsburgh Courier (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)18 Sep 1937, Sat • Page 9
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 Draft card X058, Order Number 479, Charles Reginald Eason, Born in Elizabeth NJ, Aug 26, 1905.
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  27. ↑ Mr and Mrs. Charles Eason…, The Pittsburgh Courier (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)17 Jul 1937, Sat • Page 14
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  29. ↑ Faculty, The Shaw Bulletin, April, 1937, p. 11
  30. ↑ "Appreciate ye the value of this time", Baha'i News, June, 1938, p. 5-6 (see p. 6)
  31. ↑ Faculty, The Shaw University Summer School, 1938, p. 4
  32. ↑ * Faculty (and ) Standing committees; Social, The Shaw Bulletin, April, 1938, pp. 9, 11
  33. ↑ Around the Campus, The Shaw University Bulletin, November, 1938, p. 6
  34. ↑ Deltas hold regionals in North and South Carolina, The Pittsburgh Courier (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)10 Dec 1938, Sat • Page 8
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  36. ↑ Faculty, The Shaw Bulletin, April, 1941, p. 10
  37. ↑ * Faculty, The Shaw University Bulletin, September, 1940, p. 13 -> replacement was Anita Rains - Formal opening, The Shaw University Bulletin, November, 1939, p. 6
  38. ↑ Teaching activities, North America, Baha'i News, December, 1940, pp. 3–4 (see top left of page 4)
  39. ↑ North Carolina, South Carolina, Southern Georgia, including Augusta, Baha'i Directory 1940-1941, September, 1940, p. 4
  40. ↑ Teaching activities, North America, Baha'i News, December 1940, p. 3
  41. ↑ 41.0 41.1 Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1968: January-June. Copyright Office, Library of Congress. 1971. pp. 337, 858.
  42. ↑ Visited the gravesite for mother and saw son's plaque there waiting for him too.
  43. ↑ 43.0 43.1 43.2 Spanish Instructor One of Several on Ohio Faculties by Arthur, James. Afro-American [Baltimore, Md] 25 Oct 1947. p. M_6
  44. ↑ 44.0 44.1 First National Spiritual Assembly elected in Leeward, Windward and Virgin Islands, by Lorana Kerfoot, Baha'i News, June 1967. pp. 4–6 (see p. 4)
  45. ↑ * Faculty, The Shaw University Bulletin, April, 1946, p. 10, 11, 13
    • Faculty, The Shaw University Bulletin, April, 1947, pp. 11, 12, 14
  46. ↑ Regional Teaching; Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Baha'i News, July, 1942, p. 6
  47. ↑ Committee list, Baha'i News, April, 1943, p. 4
  48. ↑ Race Unity at Green Acre, Baha'i News, November, 1944, pp. 18–19
  49. ↑ "On 'Democracy and the Negro'", by Sarah Martin Eason, The American Scholar, published by Phi Beta Kappa, Vol 13, issue 3, July 1944, p. 380; responding to "Democracy and the Negro" by Otelia Cromwell, The American Scholar, published by Phi Beta Kappa, April 1944, pp. 149-161
  50. ↑ Directory; Schools; Green Acre, Baha'i News, November, 1945, p. 5
  51. ↑ 51.0 51.1 51.2 email correspondence with William Becker, University Archives, CSUOhoi.Edu.
  52. ↑ * Fenn College On-Line, Special Collections Dept., Digital Processing Unit, Discovery Support Services & Systems Division at theMichael Schwartz Library, Cleveland State University, Copyright ©2002- 2016,
  53. ↑ Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors. American Association of University Professors. 1948. p. 391.
  54. ↑ News from local communities; The Cleveland Baha'is…, Baha'i News, October, 1946, p. 11
  55. ↑ * National Committees; Baha'i World Editorial (Vol. XI, 1946-1948), American Baha'i Directory 1946-1947, p. 1
  56. ↑ Dr. Sarah Martin Pereira…, Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois)4 Sep 1948, Sat • Page 9
  57. ↑ Baha'i sponsors lecture Saturday, News-Journal (Mansfield, Ohio)29 Oct 1948, Page 26
  58. ↑ * Baha'i World Editorial committee for Vol, XII, Baha'i News, April, 1949, p. 12
  59. ↑ The Home front; Oberlin, Ohio, Baha'i News, January, 1950, p. 4
  60. ↑ * Dedication of the spirit of the first latin teachers' institute, Baha'i News, July, 1950 p. 9
  61. ↑ World Faith forum to open, The Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio)28 Jun 1952, Sat • Main Edition • Page 4
  62. ↑ Baha'i group sponsors open meeting, News-Journal (Mansfield, Ohio)18 Aug 1954, Wed • Page 18
  63. ↑ Election of new members to national assembly, Baha'i News, January, 1954, p. 3
  64. ↑ * Teaching Missions by members of the auxiliary board, Baha'i News, October, 1954, p. 1
  65. ↑ From the American Hands of the Cause; a letter to the 1955 state conventions, by Corinne True, Paul E. Haney, Horace Holley, Baha'i News, February, 1956, p. 2
  66. ↑ Lee Hall: “If These Walls Could Talk”…Part I, by YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly, December 27, 2010
  67. ↑ Election of members of national spiritual assembly, Baha'i News, November, 1954, p. 3
  68. ↑ Teaching missions by members of Auxiliary Board, Baha'i News, February, 1955, p. 3
  69. ↑ * Area News bulletins, Baha'i News, January, 1956, p. 8
  70. ↑ American Auxiliary Board continues visits throughout Western Hemisphere; Dr. Sarah Martin Pereira, Baha'i News, May, 1956, p. 8
  71. ↑ Dr. Sarah Pereira, The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, Maryland)10 Nov 1956, Sat • Page 8
  72. ↑ Dr. Sarah Martin Pereira…(pictured), The Carolina times. / December 08, 1956 / page 1
  73. ↑ "Grave, far-reaching implications", by the National Spiritual Assembly, Baha'i News, August, 1957, p. 3
  74. ↑ * Local Baha'is attend meeting in Columbus, The Circleville Herald (Circleville, Ohio)20 Jan 1958, Page 2
  75. ↑ American Hands announce appointment of Auxiliary Board for Protection, by Corinne True, Paul E. Haney, and Horace Holley, Baha'i News, February, 1958, p. 3
  76. ↑ * 4 women honored The Tennessean (Nashville, Tennessee)25 Jan 1959, Sun • Page 50
  77. ↑ "10 College Representatives Are Named To Who's Who Among Women", The Chicago Defender (National edition) [Chicago, Ill] 21 Feb 1959: p. 15.
  78. ↑ Haitian Baha'is prepare for election of National Assembly in 1961, Baha'i News, November, 1960, p. 9
  79. ↑ Hand of the Cause H. Collis Featherstone inspires US Baha'is with news of world progress, Baha'i News Supplement, January, 1962, pp. 3-4
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