Louis Venters
Louis Venters, PhD, teaches African and African diaspora history, southern U.S. history and public history at Francis Marion University and is a consultant in the fields of historic preservation and cultural resource management. He is the author of No Jim Crow Church: The Origins of South Carolina's Bahá'í Community (2015) and the author or co-author of several site studies, public history reports and exhibits, including the award-winning greenbookofsc.com. He is a member of the South Carolina...See more
Louis Venters, PhD, teaches African and African diaspora history, southern U.S. history and public history at Francis Marion University and is a consultant in the fields of historic preservation and cultural resource management. He is the author of No Jim Crow Church: The Origins of South Carolina's Bahá'í Community (2015) and the author or co-author of several site studies, public history reports and exhibits, including the award-winning greenbookofsc.com. He is a member of the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission and on the board of directors of Preservation South Carolina. He first encountered the Bahá'í Faith as a young teenager, and since then, he has served in a number of elected and appointed positions in the Bahá'í community and lived and traveled widely in Africa, the Americas and Europe. He blogs on issues related to race, religion, history and culture at louisventers.com. See less
Louis Venters book subjects
- History > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
- Social Science > Slavery
- Social Science > Regional Studies
- South Carolina
- History
- Bahai Faith
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