Predacessors to Peoples Temple?


After talking to Professor Dumbledore, I have developed a list of other American religious movements that might help me relate to Peoples Temple: 
  • Father Divine
  • Sweet Daddy Grace
  • Elijah Muhammad  
What appeals to me most about Jim Jones' message is his dream of a post-racial world.  I'm beginning to understand Jones through the eyes of James Baldwin and Martin Luther King Jr.  There was a similar charismatic optimism, I think, that people loved in Jones. 

So of the groups above, I don't think Elijah Muhammad is a comparison in the direction I am interested in. Father Divine's peace mission, on the other hand, seems like a perfect fit.  Here is an article I found on the Peace Movement.   And just look at the sense of unity and integration in this news reel about Divine's famous "Peace Banquets" in 1938: