Ebook: The best of enemies: race and redemption in the new South
Author: Davidson Osha Gray
- Tags: Civil rights workers, Civil rights workers--Southern States, Race relations, Social change, Social change--Southern States, Case studies, Biography, Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- Case studies, Social change -- Southern States -- Case studies, Civil rights workers -- Southern States -- Case studies, Southern States -- Race relations -- Case studies, Durham (N.C.) -- Race relations -- Case studies, Ku Klux Klan (1915- ), North Carolina -- Durham, Southern States
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- City: Durham (N.C.);North Carolina;Durham;Southern States
- Edition: Paperback edition
- Language: English
- epub
"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.
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