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Farnazeh & Jack Guillebeaux

Farnazeh & Jack Guillebeaux

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Born in Tehran, Born in North Carolina
Bahais in Iran

Born in Tehran, Born in North Carolina

Farzaneh Guillebeaux: My father’s brothers hired someone to kill him when he became a Baha’i.

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Discovering prejudice at a young age
Racism in America

Discovering prejudice at a young age

Jack Guillebeaux: They burned a cross within a block of our house when I was five or six years old.

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    Farnazeh & Jack Guillebeaux
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Deciding it’s good to be black
Racial Identity

Deciding it’s good to be black

Jack Guillebeaux: I thought I would try out hating white folk. And that felt like a lot of work.

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The liberation of meeting the Baha’is
Bahai Community

The liberation of meeting the Baha’is

Jack Guillebeaux: The separation was entrenched and it was violent.

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    Farnazeh & Jack Guillebeaux
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Unready to say yes – unwilling to say no
Interracial Relationships

Unready to say yes – unwilling to say no

Jack Guillebeaux: There was something special about her and I told one of my friends that I'm going to marry that one.

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Life as an interracial couple in 1960s North Carolina
Interracial Relationships

Life as an interracial couple in 1960s North Carolina

Jack Guillebeaux: The worst thing that could happen is for Fafar or I to show fear.

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    Farnazeh & Jack Guillebeaux
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Dreaming of the future
Interracial Relationships

Dreaming of the future

Farzaneh Guillebeaux: The news of our marriage was like a bomb in Tehran because it was just so rare.

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    Farnazeh & Jack Guillebeaux
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Looking for a legal way to marry
Interracial Relationships

Looking for a legal way to marry

Farzaneh Guillebeaux: Many of the townspeople showed up at our wedding reception to see if it was really going to happen

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    Farnazeh & Jack Guillebeaux
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Laughing at the insanity of racism
Racism in America

Laughing at the insanity of racism

Jack Guillebeaux: We have constructed a society that pretends to believe there is a religious, moral, social and ethical foundation to racism.

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Changing hearts through grocery shopping
Interracial Relationships

Changing hearts through grocery shopping

Farzaneh Guillebeaux: We were looking for somewhere to live and I told landlords, I’m white, my husband is African-American, is that a problem? They would bang down the phone.

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    Farnazeh & Jack Guillebeaux
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The challenge of learning unity in diversity
Bahai Community

The challenge of learning unity in diversity

Farzaneh Guillebeaux: Learning about unity in diversity is a challenge, not just for America, but for the Baha’i community as well.

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