The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South

About this book

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

Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN-13

9781469646602

Publisher

University of North Carolina Press

Published

February 1, 2019

First published

November 7, 2017

Pages

352

Weight

19 oz

Editions

3 (Paperback · Audio CD)

Subject

History