C. P. Ellis Fan Casting for The Best of Enemies (1981) | myCast

What If Story

by Robin Bissell

Story added by peterjudge04 on May 11, 2022

In 1971 Durham, North Carolina, a segregated all-black elementary school burns accidentally. Civil rights activist Ann Atwater asks for the black children to go to the all-white school, but KKK leader C. P. Ellis opposes the decision. The NAACP sends a wealthy black attorney from the North who decides to form a "charrete" that will decide if integrate the school or not and, to make them get along, puts Ann and C. P. together. They'll get to overcome their differences and start to see each other as human beings, even at the point of becoming friends and end the town segregation.read more

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