Term of Award
Spring 2017
Degree Name
Master of Arts in History (M.A.)
Document Type and Release Option
Thesis (open access)
Copyright Statement / License for Reuse
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Department
Department of History
Committee Chair
Jonathan Bryant
Committee Member 1
Eric Hall
Committee Member 2
Michelle Haberland
Abstract
This research explicates the complexity of race relations between whites and blacks during the mid-twentieth century by using the story of Koinonia Farm (now Koinonia Partners) in Americus, Georgia. Founded in 1942, Koinonia actively practiced and promoted equality between all ethnicities and emerged as a vanguard for liberal policies over a decade before the Civil Rights Movement reached Sumter County. Notably, Koinonians effected this change while refusing to engage or align with either the white liberal movement or the Civil Rights Movement, electing to avoid politicization of their endeavors in hopes of inspiring what they felt to be a truer change in race relations.
Recommended Citation
Moye, Garret A., "White Actors in the Civil Rights Movement: Social Progressives in Americus, Georgia" (2017). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1578.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/1578
Research Data and Supplementary Material
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