ENGLISH

The best of enemies: race and redemption in the new South

By Davidson , Osha Gray

Book information

Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780807858691, 9781469646602, 9781469646619, 1469646609
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (20305996 bytes)
Edition
Paperback edition
Pages
vii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm\351
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Civil rights workers;Civil rights workers--Souther

Description

"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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