Bibliograph

The best of enemies, race and redemption in the new South, Osha Gray Davidson

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The best of enemies, race and redemption in the new South, Osha Gray Davidson

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The best of enemies

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Osha Gray Davidson

Sub title

race and redemption in the new South

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. Now a major motion picture, The Best of Enemies offers a vivid portrait of a relationship that defied all odds

Target audience

adult

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