
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.
Details
- Director
- Robin Bissell
- Writer
- Robin Bissell
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- $10,000,000
Cast
Anne Heche
Babou Ceesay
Bruce McGill
Gilbert Glenn Brown
John Gallagher Jr.
Nicholas Logan
Nick Searcy
Sam Rockwell
Taraji P. Henson
Wes Bentley
Keywords
1970s
based on novel or book
based on true story
interracial friendship
ku klux klan
north carolina
racism
segregation
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