Baha’i communities across the country contacted their governors, mayors and community leaders entreating them to proclaim June 13 as Race Amity Day. Representatives of the Fairhope Baha’i community contacted Mayor Sherry Sullivan’s office seeking her support and were thrilled when she signed an official proclamation.

The National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of the United States will recognize Robert Turner, the first African American to recognize Baha’u’llah and join his cause in 1898, the same year Paul Kingston Dealy, the first Baha’i to settle in the deep south, made his residence in Fairhope, with a monument at his gravesite in Colma, California, in October.

The Baha’i Faith functions within the community by devoting time to learning at the grassroots, taking action and reflecting on those actions, which are shared with administrative bodies to support their plans.

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