Bibliograph

The best of enemies, race and redemption in the new South, Osha Gray Davidson ; with a new introduction by the author

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The best of enemies, race and redemption in the new South, Osha Gray Davidson ; with a new introduction by the author

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-304) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The best of enemies

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1082563109

Responsibility statement

Osha Gray Davidson ; with a new introduction by the author

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

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