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The best of enemies : race and redemption in the new South /
The author of Broken Heartland and Under Fire describes how C.P. Ellis grew up amid the racism and poverty of the South, his association with the Ku Klux Klan, and his first meeting and growing friendship with civil-rights activist Ann Atwater. 15,000 fi.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
2007.
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| Edición: | Paperback edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The author of Broken Heartland and Under Fire describes how C.P. Ellis grew up amid the racism and poverty of the South, his association with the Ku Klux Klan, and his first meeting and growing friendship with civil-rights activist Ann Atwater. 15,000 fi. 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. -- Provided by publisher |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 336 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-304) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807899779 0807899771 |