
Taraji P. Henson
Ann Atwater
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Change is worth fighting for
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.
The people behind the story

Ann Atwater

Claiborne Paul Ellis

Bill Riddick

Mary Ellis

Floyd Kelly

Garland Keith

Carvie Oldham

Lee Trombley

Wiley Yates

Howard Clement

Maddy Mays
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