A Bahá'í Perspective: Lea Gerlach

Lea grew up in the southern United States during the early sixties and her awareness of the racial divide awakened about the time that Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated when she was a teenager. She was also introduced to the Baha'i Faith during that time and she describes how shocked she was (in a good way) when she was exposed to a very diversified Baha'i community. Lea and Paula Bidwell, together have created a website called href="http://manyhoops.com/main.html" target="_blank"ManyHoops.com. It is a Thanksgiving project stemming from heart-to-heart work to heal the pain, anger and guilt of the past by European descendants and Native Americans. Lea is a direct descendent of a pilgrim family and Paula is Native American. We discuss this project in the interview.