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Mankind United
Christ's Church of the Golden Rule
1934 – 1951 · California
IV. THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
Quasi-religious — utopian-commercial hybrid
### Who led it
### What it worshipped and taught
### Who was in it
### How it ended, or where it stands
### The dead
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 1934 Movement launched in California during the depths of the Depression.
- 1930s Grows to perhaps 14,000 members through cell meetings and mimeographed pamphlets.
- 1942 Bell and 13 associates indicted for sedition over anti-war statements; convictions later reversed.
- 1944 Reorganised as Christ's Church of the Golden Rule, holding member-donated property in trust.
- 1945–1951 Members sue for the return of assets; the church enters bankruptcy proceedings; Bell loses control and disappears from public life.
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