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Title The best of enemies : race and redemption in the new South / Osha Gray Davidson ; with a new introduction by the author
Imprint Chapel Hill, NC : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
©2018, 1996

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 Stadsbibl:Slottet vån 3 Samhällsvetenskap  305.8 engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Edition Paperback edition
Descript vii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note Originally published: 1996
"Now a major motion picture"
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-304) and index
"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
Subject Ku Klux Klan, 1915- -- Case studies
Ku Klux Klan, 1915-
Ku Klux Klan, 1915- -- Southern States -- Case studies
Social change -- Southern States -- Case studies
Civil rights workers -- Southern States -- Case studies
Civil rights workers.
Race relations.
Social change.
Rasrelationer
Sociala klasser
Southern States -- Race relations -- Case studies
Durham (N.C.) -- Race relations -- Case studies
North Carolina -- Durham
Southern States
Sydstaterna 
USA
Case studies.
Classmark 305.800975
ISBN/ISSN 9780807858691 (hbk.)
0807858692 (hbk.)
9781469646602 (pbk.)
1469646609 (pbk.)
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