Interracialism and Christian Community in the Postwar South: The Story of Koinonia Farm

by Tracy E. K'Meyer

Book Overview

Now available in paperback, Tracy K'Meyer's book is a thoughtful and engaging portrait of Koinonia Farm, an interracial Christian cooperative founded in 1942 by two white Baptist ministers in southwest Georgia. The farm was begun as an expression of radical southern Protestantism, and its interracial nature made it a beacon to early civil rights activists, who rallied to its defense and helped it survive attacks from the Ku Klux Klan and others. Based...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813920027
• ISBN13: 9780813920023
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher