The story revolves around the unlikely friendship 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 in Durham, North Carolina, during the racially charged summer of 1971, battling over the desegregation of schools. Durham, as well as the lives of Atwater and Ellis, would be permanently altered as a result of the remarkable events that unfolded.
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The story revolves around the unlikely friendship 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 in Durham, North Carolina, during the racially charged summer of 1971, battling over the desegregation of schools. Durham, as well as the lives of Atwater and Ellis, would be permanently altered as a result of the remarkable events that unfolded.
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