{"id":1118,"date":"2011-04-19T00:23:57","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T00:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=591"},"modified":"2011-04-19T00:23:57","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T00:23:57","slug":"they-stood-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1118","title":{"rendered":"they stood firm"},"content":{"rendered":"

We continued further south, stopping at Koinoinia Farm in Americus, Georgia. \u00a0 This was the backwater Selma to Montgomery of the Civil Rights Movement. \u00a0 On this farm in the late ’40s, blacks and whites lived and worked together in community — receiving the same pay. \u00a0 The Ku Klux Klan burned crosses and did drive by shootings. \u00a0 The town ostracized those on the farm. \u00a0 But the community stood firm. \u00a0 Community founder Clarence Jordan wrote a series of books called the Cotton Patch Gospels<\/em>. \u00a0 The crux of the books was Jesus coming to earth in southern Georgia in the 1940s to confront the issues of the day, including (that’s right) prejudice. \u00a0 Jordan, along with Millard Fuller, were also the co-founders of Habitat for Humanity<\/strong>. \u00a0 Up the street from the farm was a settlement of blacks living in what amounted to a shanty town. \u00a0 People from Koinonia, hammers in hand, set out to help them. \u00a0 From this grew a phenomenal international agency that’s goal is: \u00a0 “To provide adequate housing for everyone in the world.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We continued further south, stopping at Koinoinia Farm in Americus, Georgia. \u00a0 This was the backwater Selma to Montgomery of the Civil Rights Movement. \u00a0 On this farm in the late ’40s, blacks and whites lived and worked together in …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}