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    The Class of '65: A Student, a Divided Town, and the Long Road to Forgiveness
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    The Class of '65: A Student, a Divided Town, and the Long Road to Forgiveness
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    The Class of '65: A Student, a Divided Town, and the Long Road to Forgiveness

    Written by Jim Auchmutey

    Narrated by Adam Verner

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    About this audiobook

    Being a student at Americus High School was the worst experience of Greg Wittkamper's life. Greg came from a nearby Christian commune, Koinonia, whose members devoutly and publicly supported racial equality. When he refused to insult and attack his school's first black students in 1964, Greg was mistreated as badly as they were: harassed and bullied and beaten. In the summer after his senior year, as racial strife in Americus - and the nation - reached its peak, Greg left Georgia. Forty-one years later, 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, and set him on a journey that would prove healing and saddening.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateApr 14, 2015
    ISBN9781681410302
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    The Class of '65: A Student, a Divided Town, and the Long Road to Forgiveness
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    Jim Auchmutey

    Jim Auchmutey spent twenty-nine years at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution as a reporter and editor, twice winning the Cox Newspaper chain's writer of the year award. He first visited Koinonia Farm in 1980 and has written extensively about the commune, the South, race relations, religion, and history. He lives in Georgia.

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      A biography of a young man, Gregg Whittkamper, growing up in the Sixties with his family on a pacifist, religious commune near Americus, Georgia. He was bullied, harassed and persecuted by many of his classmates; pushed to the limits as he supported his black friends who integrated Americus High School in 1965. His story is also the story of redemption and forgiveness decades later for some of his white classmates. Highly recommended. (lj)