This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
Clarence Jordan was an American Baptist minister and biblical scholar who founded Koinonia Farm, an interracial Christian farming community near Americus, Georgia, at a time when racially integrated community life was itself dangerous and controversial in the segregated American South. Founding the community was a documented act of religious conviction carried out under conditions that made it a target rather than a neutral undertaking.
Koinonia Farm organized its members, Black and white alike, around shared labor and shared religious life on the same land, a documented structure distinct from segregated congregational life that was otherwise standard practice across the region during Jordan's own lifetime. The community persisted through Jordan's own ministry despite the hostility integrated communal life provoked in the segregated South of its founding decades.
That a Baptist minister chose to build an integrated farming community rather than pursue reform within already segregated institutions, in a region and period where doing so carried real danger, marks Koinonia Farm's founding as a documented case of religious conviction acted out structurally rather than argued for only in preaching.