As he continued to study, the solutions he was looking for became apparent and he became, in his words, "a confirmed believer" in the Baha'i Faith. This was in June of 1909. He began to write to Abdu'l-Baha, the head of the Baha'i Faith at that time, and, in November of that year he received the following reply:
"I hope that thou mayest become ... the means whereby the white and colored people shall close their eyes to racial differences and behold the reality of humanity, and that is the universal unity which is the oneness of the kingdom of the human race, the basic harmony of the world and the appearance of the bounty of the Almighty ... be thou resigned to the Will of God, so that like unto a candle thou mayest be enkindled in the world of humanity and like unto a star thou mayest shine and gleam from the Horizon of Reality and become the cause of the Guidance of both races."
Louis Gregory gave up the security of being a lawyer and devoted his life to promoting both the Baha'i Faith and the principle of racial unity. He traveled throughout the United States, and, in particular, the South. The difficulties of holding interracial meetings in the South made this quite difficult. If not for the love and hospitality of the Baha'i, it would have been almost impossible, as these types of meeting were dangerous, and sometimes even illegal. Louis Gregory spoke on many of the college campuses. Among them were Fisk University and Tuskegee Institute.
Louis Gregory was also active in the Baha'i Administration of the United States by serving on many different national Baha'i committees. He was the only African American elected to the Baha'i Temple Unity (which was the overseer of the construction of the 1st House of Worship in the Western Hemisphere). He was also the first African American elected to the National Spiritual Assemble of the United States, serving a total of fourteen years.
In 1912, Louis Gregory married Louisa Mathew, a white Baha'i From England. They had met in 1911, in Egypt, while visiting Abdu'l-Baha (http://people.mw.mediaone.net/rreini/det... While there was an attraction between, they had no thought of marriage, but, Abdu'l-Baha told them that it would bring Him great pleasure if they would marry, and gave it great consideration. Abdu'l-Baha had said that intermarriage would "abolish differences and disputes between black and white." Their marriage (http://www.geocities.com/ad_container/po... was a challenge to the social convention of that time, and was even a criminal offense in some states. Because of this, the Gregorys moved to Maine, a state that accepted the legality of their marriage.
