Film
The Best of Enemies
Centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, a local Ku Klux Klan leader who reluctantly co-chaired a community summit, battling over the desegregation of schools in Durham, North Carolina during the racially-charged summer of 1971. The incredible events that unfolded would change Durham and the lives of Atwater and Ellis forever.
Overview
Centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, a local Ku Klux Klan leader who reluctantly co-chaired a community summit, battling over the desegregation of schools in Durham, North Carolina during the racially-charged summer of 1971. The incredible events that unfolded would change Durham and the lives of Atwater and Ellis forever.
Cast
- Taraji P. HensonAnn Atwater
- Sam RockwellClaiborne Paul Ellis
- Babou CeesayBill Riddick
- Anne HecheMary Ellis
- Wes BentleyFloyd Kelly
- Nick SearcyGarland Keith
- Bruce McGillCarvie Oldham
- John Gallagher Jr.Lee Trombley
