Julia Lynch Olin
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Her association with Ahmad Sohrab led to the creation of the New History Society and the Caravan of the East and West. Her house in Manhattan was christened the "Caravan House". The New History Society published a number of works. Caravan was an organization to introduce young people to the Baha'i religion, a sort-of youth core, before joining the main body. At one time Caravan boasted of having tens of thousands of members all over the world. | Her association with Ahmad Sohrab led to the creation of the New History Society and the Caravan of the East and West. Her house in Manhattan was christened the "Caravan House". The New History Society published a number of works. Caravan was an organization to introduce young people to the Baha'i religion, a sort-of youth core, before joining the main body. At one time Caravan boasted of having tens of thousands of members all over the world. | ||
| − | Sohrab and Julia were ordered to submit to the New York Baha'i organization, to be under their aegis and they refused. For this Sohrab was excommunicated from the religion in 1939 by Shoghi Effendi, the then-head of the religion. Later the | + | Sohrab and Julia were ordered to submit to the New York Baha'i organization, to be under their aegis and they refused. For this Sohrab was excommunicated from the religion in 1939 by Shoghi Effendi, the then-head of the religion. Later, in 1941, the National Spiritual Assemby sued Sohrab, Julia and her husband to try to stop them from using the name Baha'i in their efforts. The organization lost this case, setting the precedent that the name Baha'i, standing for a religion, may be used by anyone. |
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| + | The lawsuit is mentioned by [[Ruth White]] in her book ''Questioned Will and Testament'' published in 1946, where she also [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/U-Z/W/White_Ruth/QWT097.gif here on page 97], states that Julia publishes two magazines ''New History'' and ''The Caravan''. "Her four-story house is used to carry on the work, and these efforts have been crowned with enormous success. In the first twelve years of the publication of ''The Caravan'', from 1933 until January 1945, 480 chapters were established in twenty-four countries, with a membership of 80,000." | ||
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