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005			20251028093342.0
008			141230s2015 nyua b 001 0beng
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035			_a(Sirsi) i9781610393546
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020			_a9781610393546 (hardcover)
020			_a1610393546 (hardcover)
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100	1		_aAuchmutey, Jim.
245	1	4	_aThe class of '65 : _ba student, a divided town, and the long road to forgiveness / _cJim Auchmutey.
246	3		_aClass of sixty-five
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bPublicAffairs, _c[2015]
300			_aviii, 261 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520	2		_a"Being a student at Americus High School in 1964 was the worst experience of Greg Wittkamper's life. A member of a nearby Christian commune, Koinonia, Greg was publicly and devoutly in favor of racial integration and harmony. Koinonia's farm goods were boycotted by businesses for miles around, and they were targeted and attacked with bombs and gunfire by the Ku Klux Klan. But Greg did not waver in his beliefs. When Americus High School was integrated, he refused to participate in the insults and violence aimed at its black students. He was harassed and bullied and beaten but stood his ground. In the summer after his senior year, as racial strife in Americus reached its peak, Greg left town. Forty-two years later, in the spring of 2006, a dozen former classmates wrote letters to Greg, asking his forgiveness and inviting him to return for a class reunion. Their words opened a vein of painful memory and unresolved emotion. The long-deferred attempt at reconciliation started him on a journey that would prove healing and saddening. The Class of '65 transcends the ugly things that happened decades ago in the Deep South. This book is also the story of four people--David Morgan, Joseph Logan, Deanie Dudley, and Celia Harvey--who reached out to their former classmate. Why did they change their minds? Why did it still matter to them, decades later? Their tale illustrates our capacity for change and the ways in which America has--and has not--matured in its attitudes about race. At heart, this is a tale about a pariah and the people who eventually realized that they had been a party to injustice. It is a tandem story of a country and its people--angry, fearful, and proud--to make real change"-- _cProvided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 245-249) and index.
505	0		_aPrologue -- Part 1: Koinonia -- Farming for Jesus -- "We Made Our Reality" -- Terror in the Night -- Part 2: Americus -- The Children's Hour -- Welcome to the Revolution -- "Not in My Town" -- Part 3: Senior year -- Among Panthers -- The Fight -- A Lesson Before Leaving -- Part 4: Continuing Education -- The Next Selma -- Breaking Away -- Growing Up -- Part 5: Reunion -- Almost Heaven -- Guilt and Grace -- Back to Americus -- Epilogue.
600	1	0	_aWittkamper, Greg, _d1947- _xChildhood and youth.
651		0	_aAmericus (Ga.) _xRace relations _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aSchool integration _zGeorgia _zAmericus _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aHigh school students _zGeorgia _zAmericus _vBiography.
650		0	_aYouth, White _zGeorgia _zAmericus _vBiography.
610	2	0	_aKoinonia Farm _vBiography.
650		0	_aOutcasts _zGeorgia _zAmericus _vBiography.
650		0	_aPersecution _zGeorgia _zAmericus _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aClass reunions _zGeorgia _zAmericus.
650		0	_aForgiveness _zGeorgia _zAmericus.
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