Shawnee, Oklahoma

Shawnee
City in the United States
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Shawnee is a city in the US State of Oklahoma. A Bahá’í community had been firmly established in the city as of the 1990s.

History[edit]

As of 1938 the Bahá’í community of Oklahoma City was supporting Esperanto classes in Shawnee.[1]

In 1981 the District Teaching Committee of Eastern Oklahoma arranged a gathering, dubbed a Reunion, for the Bahá’ís in the region to meet during which the history of the Faith in the State was discussed.[2] In 1985 a Summer School for Oklahoma Bahá’ís was held in Shawnee.[3]

By 1991 a Bahá’í community had been firmly established in Shawnee and that year the community assisted the local chapter of the NAACP in its organisation of their Juneteenth Picnic,[4] and in 1992 the community hosted a Race Unity picnic.[5] In 1994 Bahá’ís from Shawnee visited Nikaho in Japan, which had been officially adopted as a sister city of Shawnee by the civil authorities in 1990.[6]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Baha'i News (1939). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 122, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
  2. ↑ The American Bahá’í (1981). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 12, Issue 9, pg(s) 19. View as PDF.
  3. ↑ The American Bahá’í (1985). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 16, Issue 5, pg(s) 8. View as PDF.
  4. ↑ The American Bahá’í (1991). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 22, Issue 9, pg(s) 15. View as PDF.
  5. ↑ The American Bahá’í (1992). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 23, Issue 17, pg(s) 1. View as PDF.
  6. ↑ The American Bahá’í (1994). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 25, Issue 19, pg(s) 19. View as PDF.
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