African American Women in the Bahá’í Faith, 1899—1919 By Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis  Harriet Gibbs Marshall. The second African American woman known to have enrolled in the Bahá’í Faith in 1912 was Harriet Gibbs Marshall. Mrs. Marshall had shown an interest in the Faith as early as 1910 when she began holding regular informal meetings in her … Continue reading Harriet Gibbs Marshall