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...Georgia grand jury finally got around to investigating Koinonia Farm, the famed interracial community near Americus. After twelve years of peaceful existence, rumors began to fly with the Supreme Court's 1954 desegregation decision that there was "sex mixing" at the farm and that it harbored Communist spies. The jury's 16-page report revived the old accusations, also charged that Koinonia was masquerading as a religious group to avoid payment of taxes and that the violence was largely perpetrated by the farm members themselves as a bid for sympathy. (Koinonia answered back with an eleven-page, point...
Things were quiet at Koinonia Farm last week. Not many tourists stopped at the newly reopened roadside stand on U.S. 19 because all the signs advertising it had been stolen. The people of Americus, Ga. (pop. 12,000) would like to get rid of Koinonia Farm; it is an embarrassment to some, a scandal to others. For it is a Christian experiment in racial equality...
...after missionary duty in Burma. With $59 between them they took an option on a rundown 440-acre plot beside the highway in as prejudiced a part of Georgia as anyone could find. A Louisville builder donated the rest of the money they needed, and they called the place Koinonia (pronounced coy-no-nee-ah), Greek for fellowship. Now the fellowship farm is fighting for its life...
Today there are 60 residents at Koinonia-45 whites and 15 Negroes. The 440 acres have grown to 1,103, with cash crops of peanuts, corn, cotton, cattle, hogs, goats and poultry...
...ugly rumors: "Communist spies" were harbored there; "sex mixing" was practiced. When Clarence Jordan endorsed the applications of two Negroes for admission to Georgia State College of Business Administration, things began to happen. There were anonymous phone calls; the roadside signs were ripped down at night; retailers turned down Koinonia produce...