Author: Jim Auchmutey
Publisher: 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.
The Class of '65
Author: Jim Auchmutey
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Strength and Drive
Author: Robert A. Doughty
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1496957318
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
The Class of 1965 entered the Military Academy in July 1961. As cadets, they received a traditional West Point education but also studied new fields such as computers and nuclear physics. Upon graduation, members of the class received numerous national scholarships, including one Rhodes scholarship. During the Vietnam War members of the class received no less than one Medal of Honor, four Distinguished Service Crosses, one Air Force Cross, 94 Silver Stars, 5 Soldiers Medals, 175 Bronze Stars with V device for valor, and 129 Purple Hearts. In later years, members of the class served with distinction in Grenada, Panama, Iraq, and elsewhere. They became leaders in transforming the army after the Cold War into a much leaner, more agile, technologically advanced force. Those who left the service, whether after four years in uniform or more, contributed to the nation in a similarly impressive manner. As civilians they excelled in numerous fields and exhibited as much patriotism and Strength and Drive as those still in uniform. Whether in uniform or not, members of the class of 1965 served their communities and nation and never lost sight of the meaning of West Points motto: Duty, Honor, Country.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1496957318
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
The Class of 1965 entered the Military Academy in July 1961. As cadets, they received a traditional West Point education but also studied new fields such as computers and nuclear physics. Upon graduation, members of the class received numerous national scholarships, including one Rhodes scholarship. During the Vietnam War members of the class received no less than one Medal of Honor, four Distinguished Service Crosses, one Air Force Cross, 94 Silver Stars, 5 Soldiers Medals, 175 Bronze Stars with V device for valor, and 129 Purple Hearts. In later years, members of the class served with distinction in Grenada, Panama, Iraq, and elsewhere. They became leaders in transforming the army after the Cold War into a much leaner, more agile, technologically advanced force. Those who left the service, whether after four years in uniform or more, contributed to the nation in a similarly impressive manner. As civilians they excelled in numerous fields and exhibited as much patriotism and Strength and Drive as those still in uniform. Whether in uniform or not, members of the class of 1965 served their communities and nation and never lost sight of the meaning of West Points motto: Duty, Honor, Country.
The History of the Class of 1965
Author: Patton Adams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College students
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College students
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
My Blue Heaven
Author: Becky M. Nicolaides
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226583006
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
List of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. The Quest for Independence, 1920-19401. Building Independence in Suburbia2. Peopling the Subur 3. The Texture of Everyday Life4. The Politics of IndependencePart II. Closing Ranks, 1940-19655. "A Beautiful Place"6. The Suburban Good Life Arrives7. The Racializing of Local PoliticsEpilogueAcronyms for Collections and ArchivesNotes Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226583006
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
List of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. The Quest for Independence, 1920-19401. Building Independence in Suburbia2. Peopling the Subur 3. The Texture of Everyday Life4. The Politics of IndependencePart II. Closing Ranks, 1940-19655. "A Beautiful Place"6. The Suburban Good Life Arrives7. The Racializing of Local PoliticsEpilogueAcronyms for Collections and ArchivesNotes Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Commencement Programs
Author: University of California, Berkeley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commencement ceremonies
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commencement ceremonies
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Wooster High School Class of 1965 50th Reunion
Author: Patricia Melton
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519586155
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
We came by car, by plane, by bicycle. Perhaps someone took a bus or a train. We gathered for two evenings at the Atlantis, which didn't exist when we were in school. Some of us visited Wooster and some of us had breakfast and lunches with old friends we hadn't seen in years. We are real estate agents and teachers, nurses and artists, ranchers, lawyers, chiropractors, golfers, computer analysts and programmers, engineers and bridge masters. We served in the military and as firefighters and police. One of us became mayor of Lovelock and one became chair of the Tribal Council for the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony. Others have worked in state, local and federal agencies. Some of us have come to every reunion; some have come to none, and for one of us, the fiftieth was the first time. Some of us left Reno as soon as we could; some of us have come back; some have lived in Nevada's mountains and valleys all our lives. All of us were members of the first class to go through all three years of high school at Wooster, graduating in 1965.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519586155
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
We came by car, by plane, by bicycle. Perhaps someone took a bus or a train. We gathered for two evenings at the Atlantis, which didn't exist when we were in school. Some of us visited Wooster and some of us had breakfast and lunches with old friends we hadn't seen in years. We are real estate agents and teachers, nurses and artists, ranchers, lawyers, chiropractors, golfers, computer analysts and programmers, engineers and bridge masters. We served in the military and as firefighters and police. One of us became mayor of Lovelock and one became chair of the Tribal Council for the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony. Others have worked in state, local and federal agencies. Some of us have come to every reunion; some have come to none, and for one of us, the fiftieth was the first time. Some of us left Reno as soon as we could; some of us have come back; some have lived in Nevada's mountains and valleys all our lives. All of us were members of the first class to go through all three years of high school at Wooster, graduating in 1965.
The Class of 1965
Author: Harvard University. Office for Graduate and Career Plans
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Class of 1965
Author: Harvard School of Public Health
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
The Class 1965
Author: Steve Dukeshier
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781517316570
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Shenandoah High School 50 Year Class Reunion Book
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781517316570
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Shenandoah High School 50 Year Class Reunion Book
Common Sense and a Little Fire
Author: Annelise Orleck
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807863718
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Common Sense and a Little Fire traces the personal and public lives of four immigrant women activists who left a lasting imprint on American politics. Though they have rarely had more than cameo appearances in previous histories, Rose Schneiderman, Fannia Cohn, Clara Lemlich Shavelson, and Pauline Newman played important roles in the emergence of organized labor, the New Deal welfare state, adult education, and the modern women's movement. Orleck takes her four subjects from turbulent, turn-of-the-century Eastern Europe to the radical ferment of New York's Lower East Side and the gaslit tenements where young workers studied together. Drawing from the women's writings and speeches, she paints a compelling picture of housewives' food and rent protests, of grim conditions in the garment shops, of factory-floor friendships that laid the basis for a mass uprising of young women garment workers, and of the impassioned rallies working women organized for suffrage. From that era of rebellion, Orleck charts the rise of a distinctly working-class feminism that fueled poor women's activism and shaped government labor, tenant, and consumer policies through the early 1950s.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807863718
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Common Sense and a Little Fire traces the personal and public lives of four immigrant women activists who left a lasting imprint on American politics. Though they have rarely had more than cameo appearances in previous histories, Rose Schneiderman, Fannia Cohn, Clara Lemlich Shavelson, and Pauline Newman played important roles in the emergence of organized labor, the New Deal welfare state, adult education, and the modern women's movement. Orleck takes her four subjects from turbulent, turn-of-the-century Eastern Europe to the radical ferment of New York's Lower East Side and the gaslit tenements where young workers studied together. Drawing from the women's writings and speeches, she paints a compelling picture of housewives' food and rent protests, of grim conditions in the garment shops, of factory-floor friendships that laid the basis for a mass uprising of young women garment workers, and of the impassioned rallies working women organized for suffrage. From that era of rebellion, Orleck charts the rise of a distinctly working-class feminism that fueled poor women's activism and shaped government labor, tenant, and consumer policies through the early 1950s.