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The Class of '65

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In the midst of racial strife, one young man showed courage and empathy. It took forty years for the others to join him
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.
The Class of '65 is more than a heartbreaking story from the segregated South. It is also about four of Greg's classmates — David Morgan, Joseph Logan, Deanie Dudley, and Celia Harvey — who came to reconsider the attitudes they grew up with. How did they change? Why, half a lifetime later, did reaching out to the most despised boy in school matter to them? This noble book reminds us that while ordinary people may acquiesce to oppression, we all have the capacity to alter our outlook and redeem ourselves.

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Publisher: PublicAffairs

Kindle Book

  • Release date: March 31, 2015

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  • ISBN: 9781610393553
  • File size: 13743 KB
  • Release date: March 31, 2015

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  • ISBN: 9781610393553
  • File size: 13743 KB
  • Release date: March 31, 2015

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In the midst of racial strife, one young man showed courage and empathy. It took forty years for the others to join him
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.
The Class of '65 is more than a heartbreaking story from the segregated South. It is also about four of Greg's classmates — David Morgan, Joseph Logan, Deanie Dudley, and Celia Harvey — who came to reconsider the attitudes they grew up with. How did they change? Why, half a lifetime later, did reaching out to the most despised boy in school matter to them? This noble book reminds us that while ordinary people may acquiesce to oppression, we all have the capacity to alter our outlook and redeem ourselves.

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  • Details

    Publisher:
    PublicAffairs

    Kindle Book
    Release date: March 31, 2015

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9781610393553
    File size: 13743 KB
    Release date: March 31, 2015

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781610393553
    File size: 13743 KB
    Release date: March 31, 2015

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  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
  • Languages
    English