Bahá'í Unity Center of Savannah, GA

Savannah News 4/19/2020 B11

A Moment in Black History Helen Elsie Austin (May 10, 1908 Oct 26, 2004) was an American attorney, member of the Baháí Faith's National Spiritual Assembly in the United States and for what was then the regional assembly of North West Africa, and worked for years as a US Foreign Service Officer in Africa. She was among the first African-Americans admitted to the practice of law in the United States, was assistant attorney general in Ohio, served on numerous committees, executive positions, and consulted, for the Baháís, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Council of Negro Women, and was a president for the Delta Sigma Theta sorority.

This afternoon the youth handed out free school supplies to those families going back to school this week in the neighborhood around the Baha’i center.

A Moment in Black History (August 1, 1902 April 17, 1978)[1] was an American Bahá'í and insurance executive from Chicago who pioneered to Haiti, Madagascar and Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).[2][3

Armed with the power of Thy name nothing can ever hurt me, and with Thy love in my heart all the world’s afflictions can in no wise alarm me.