Agnes Parsons became a fine speaker about the Faith and always had an
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Agnes Parsons became a fine speaker about the Faith and always had an invitation for traveling teachers to give talks in her home. During her second pilgrimage in 1920, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá told her that she should organize the convention for the unity of the colored and white races. For a woman of her social standing to promote the unity of the black and one in the white was tradition-breaking.
Source: Earl Redman, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Their Midst, p. 91
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