Koinonia Community article and memoranda, 1953 and 1957

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Summary

Creator:
Koinonia Community
Abstract:
The Koinonia Community was a Christian farm community founded in 1942 in Americus (Sumter Co.), Ga., by Clarence and Florence Jordan and Martin and Mabel England. Collection comprises one article (1953, reprinted from MOTIVE magazine by the Board of Education of the Methodist Church), as well as two memoranda soliciting support for the community as a result of violence directed toward it during the 1950s because of its interracial composition.
Extent:
0.1 Linear Feet
Language:
Materials in English
Collection ID:
RL.00788

Background

Scope and content:

Collection comprises one article (1953, reprinted from MOTIVE magazine by the Board of Education of the Methodist Church), as well as two memoranda soliciting support for the community as a result of violence directed toward it during the 1950s because of its interracial composition.

Biographical / historical:

The Koinonia Community was a Christian farm community founded in 1942 in Americus (Sumter Co.), Ga., by Clarence and Florence Jordan and Martin and Mabel England.

Acquisition information:
Purchase, 2009
Processing information:

Processed by: Alice Poffinberger, June 2010

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, June 2010

Accession(s) described in this finding aid: 2009-0189

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[Identification of item], in the Koinonia Community article and memoranda, 1953 and 1957, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.