voted to Inter-Racial Amity, particularly to amity between the white and colored races.
Founded upon the principle of spiritual oneness revealed by Bahá’u’lláh as the underlying social law of this cycle, the meetings for Inter-Racial Amity have endeavored to meet the problem without compromise, asserting and demonstrating the possibility of justice and fellowship between these long opposed branches of
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the human family. Meetings of this character have been held in Washington, D. c.; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Dayton, Ohio; Green Acre, Eliot, Maine; Brooklyn, New York; Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; Montreal, Canada; New York, New York; Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. In most of these centers the inter-racial work has been made continuous through committees composed of members of both races.
The racial problem, in fact, was declared by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to be the most serious menace to American civilization, capable of producing widespread devastation, with international difficulties, unless solved by the power of true religion. These statements were given such emphasis by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá toward the end of His life that the Bahá’ís of America have come to regard the matter of interracial amity as one of their primary re-
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sponsibilities. The program of the first Conference dedicated to this ideal is reproduced above.
In addition to the teachings on this subject found in the writings of Bahá’u’lláh and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, the American Bahá’ís have the following exhortation by Shoghi Effendi uttered in his letter to the National Spiritual Assembly dated April 12, 1927:
"As this problem, in the inevitable course of events, grows in acuteness and
