The Best of Enemies, Movie Edition : Race and Redemption in the New South /

"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 wi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davidson, Osha Gray (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill, NC : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Edition:Paperback edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) > Case studies.
Social change.
Race relations.
Civil rights workers.
Civil rights workers > Southern States > Case studies.
Social change > Southern States > Case studies.
Southern States.
North Carolina > Durham.
Durham (N.C.) > Race relations > Case studies.
Southern States > Race relations > Case studies.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary:"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."--Page 4 of cover.
Item Description:"Now a major motion picture."
Originally published: 1996.
Physical Description:1 online resource (352 pages): illustrations ;
ISBN:9781469646626

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