Faced with the segregated social pattern and laws of Apartheid in South Africa,…
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When in Bahá'í history
Faced with the segregated social pattern and laws of Apartheid in South Africa, the integrated population of Bahá’ís had to decide how to be composed in their administrative structures whether the National Spiritual Assembly would be all black or all white. The Bahá’í community decided that instead of dividing the South African Bahá’í community into two population groups, one black and one white, they instead limited membership in the Bahá’í Administration to black adherents, and placed the entire Bahá’í community under the leadership of its black population.
Source: Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report 1998-10-29); Volume Four, paragraphs 6, 27, 75, 84, 102
Collected from bahaistories.com (Subject: race-unity).
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