Opinion: Want to unify the country? A community organizer and a Klan leader showed us how.
From left, Sam Rockwell, Babou Ceesay and Taraji P. Henson star in"The Best of Enemies." By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove March 28 at 3:57 PM Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove directs the Ann Atwater Freedom Library in Durham, N.C.
“The Best of Enemies” tells the unlikely story of how Atwater came to work with C.P. Ellis , a local leader of the Ku Klux Klan, to develop a plan for school desegregation in Durham, N.C. Atwater and Ellis had spent years rallying their competing bases to out-shout each other in public debates over civil rights.
Atwater first learned community organizing from Howard Fuller, a charismatic young man who showed up at her door in the mid-1960s, when she was living in dilapidated housing in Durham’s segregated Hayti community. Atwater wanted basic repairs to the house she was renting, and Fuller helped her get them. Then he told Atwater he wanted her to attend a 17-week community action technician training.
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