The other boy is screaming, upsetting Larry. His disabled son, Larry, has been put in the same room with another disabled boy. Murdock is a facility that takes care of disabled boys where his son with Down Syndrome resides.ĬP is called to Murdock, and he rushes over. CP hotly says that he won't talk about his boy. They eat in tense silence, then Ann asks CP if he has a boy in Murdock. Then Bill makes the blacks and whites in their group sit next to each other in the cafeteria and eat. Ann refuses, but Bill agrees.Īt one meeting, a group of black teenagers tries to destroy the KKK items, but Ann stops and tells them to instead understand what the KKK is. CP hotly refuses, saying if the blacks want to sing gospel music at the charrette, he should be allowed to put out his KKK items to display. A black reverend asks Bill if he can play gospel music at the end of each session. CP tries to talk to folks selected to vote, but is mostly rebuffed. They agree to pick some people randomly from the group to vote on the issues at the end of the meeting sessions. Bill tells them the charrettes are designed to help groups develop solutions, so this one will tackle school segregation and other educational issues for the whole Durham school district. CP is a proud racist and refuses to sit with Bill and Ann, since they are black and he is white. The judicial decision is to bring in a proven mediation expert, Bill Riddick, who sets up a meeting with the both of them.Īt first, both of them refuse since they hate each other, but then they are convinced. The city council makes a finding the school is still usable, so the NAACP helps file a lawsuit.
Ann's daughters' school catches on fire (whether by accident or arson is unclear), and CP is afraid that the black children will come to the white schools.
Ellis is the president of the KKK, and has a family with children. 1971: In Durham, North Carolina, Ann Atwater tries to get better housing conditions for poor black people, and is ignored by the all-white judge panel.
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