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C. P. Ellis grew up in the indegent white portion of Durham, NEW YORK, and as a man joined up with the Ku Klux Klan. Ann Atwater, a single mother from the indegent dark-colored part of town, quit her job as a household domestic to join the civil protection under the law fight. During the 1960s, as the country struggled with the explosive issue of competition, Atwater and Ellis met on opposite edges of the public school integration concern. Their encounters were priced with hatred and suspicion. Within an amazing set of transformations, however, each of them came to see how the other have been exploited by the South's rigid power structure, plus they forged a friendship that flourished against a backdrop of unrelenting bigotry. Rich with details about the rhythms of daily life in the mid-20th-century South, The Best of Enemies offers a vibrant portrait of an relationship that defied all possibilities. By inserting this very personal account into broader context, Osha Gray Davidson demonstrates that competition is intimately linked with issues of course and that cooperation can be done - even in the most divisive situations - when people start to listen to one another.
