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.
Now a major motion picture,
The Best of Enemies offers a
vivid portrait of a relationship that defied all odds. View the
movie trailer here:
https://youtu.be/eKM6fSTs-A0