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The Best of Enemies

Race and Redemption in the New South
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Description

C. P. Ellis grew up in the poor white section of Durham, North Carolina, and as a young man joined the Ku Klux Klan. Ann Atwater, a single mother from the poor black part of town, quit her job as a household domestic to join the civil rights fight. During the 1960s, as the country struggled with the explosive issue of race, Ellis and Atwater met on opposite sides of the public school integration issue. Their encounters were charged with hatred and suspicion. In an amazing set of transformations, however, each of them came to see how the other had been exploited by the South's rigid power structure, and they forged a friendship that flourished against a backdrop of unrelenting bigotry.

Now a major motion picture, The Best of Enemies offers a vivid portrait of a relationship that defied all odds. View the movie trailer here: https: //youtu.be/eKM6fSTs-A0

Product Details

PublisherUniversity of North Carolina Press
Publish DateFebruary 01, 2019
Pages352
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781469646602
Dimensions9.2 X 6.1 X 0.8 inches | 1.2 pounds

About the Author

Osha Gray Davidson is a journalist and author most recently of Clean Break: The Story of Germany's Energy Transformation and What Americans Can Learn From It.

Reviews

"Postbellum realities of life in Dixie through the lens of Durham, North Carolina, are shared in this narrative nonfiction book. . . . The history of the civil rights movement is chronicled throughout the book, with a focus on the lives of C.P. Ellis and Ann Atwater."--Midwest Book Review

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