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Category : Americus (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
A Chronology of Americus and Sumter County, Georgia
Author: Remembering Americus, Georgia: Essays on Southern Life
Author: Alan AndersonPublisher: History Press Library Editions
ISBN: 9781540217530
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Americus Through the Years
Author: William Bailey WillifordPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The Class of '65
Author: Jim AuchmuteyPublisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610393554
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
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.
Americus Through the Years
Author: William Bailey WillifordPublisher:
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Category : Americus (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Notes from Newspapers of Americus, Georgia, 1854-1930
Author: John GorePublisher:
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Category : Americus (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A chronologically arranged collection of notes about historical and significant events taking place in Americus, Sumter County, Georgia reported in the local newspapers; the Sumter Republican, Weekly Sumter Republican, Tri-Weekly Republican, Semi-Weekly Sumter Republican, Americus Daily Recorder, Americus Weekly Recorder, Americus Daily Times, Times-Recorder, Americus Times-Recorder, and the Americus Times-Recorder Weekly. The 108 page index provides subject and name access to the chronological collection. It is intended that the notes be used by the investigator as a lead to the newspaper material, and not as end material in themselves. -- provided by the cataloger and the author.
Americus (1854-1861)
Author: Jon Kenneth McUmberPublisher:
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Category : Americus (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A history of Americus in Sumter County, Georgia between 1854 and 1861 based soley on information published in The Sumter Republican, the earliest newspaper of Americus and the Sumter County area. -- cataloger
A History of Savannah and South Georgia
Author: William HardenPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians
Author: Lucian Lamar KnightPublisher:
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Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
An Hour Before Daylight
Author: Jimmy CarterPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780743211994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Jimmy Carter re-creates his boyhood on a Georgia farm.