The Class of '65: A Student, a Divided Town, and the Long Road to Forgiveness

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 summ...