To Clarence L. Jordan
8 February 1957
[Montgomery, Ala.]
Throughout 1956 and 1957 the members of Koinonia Farm, an interracial
Christian cooperative community in Americus, Georgia, had been harassed,
shot at and bombed for their stand against segregation. On 26 January
Jordan, a co-founder of Koinonia, contacted King for insurance advice,
reporting that their own insurance "had been cancelled so much
that we have exhausted every source we know." in agriculture,
an interracial Christian agricultural community in Americus, Georgia.
Dr. Clarence L. Jordan
Koinonia Community
Route 2
Americus, Georgia
Dear Dr. Jordan:
This is to acknowledge receipt of your letter of January 26, making
inquiry concerning our insurance. It is quite true that our station
wagons are covered through Lloyds of London. This contact was made for
us through Alexander and Company in Atlanta, Georgia. So I would suggest
that you contact Mr. Alexander and have him make direct contact with
Lloyds of London.in business administration I am sure that he would
be more than happy to do it.
You and the Koinonia Community have been in my prayers continually for
the last several months. The injustices and indignities that you are
now confronting certainly leave you in trying moments. I hope, however,
that you will gain consolation from the fact that in your struggle for
freedom and a true Christian community you have cosmic companionship.
God grant that this tragic midnight of man's inhumanity to man will
soon pass and the bright daybreak of freedom and brotherhood will come
into being.
Yours very truly,
M. L. King, Jr.,
Minister
MLK:mlb
(Dictated by Rev. King, but signed in his absence.)
TLc. MLKP-MBU: Box 62.
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