TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davidson,Osha Gray
TI  - The best of enemies: race and redemption in the new South 
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Chapel Hill, NC
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Social change
KW  - Southern States
KW  - Civil rights workers
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Durham (N.C.)
N1  - Originally published: 1996; "Now a major motion picture"; Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-304) and index
N2  - "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
ER  -