Ann Atwater?
Last night, an electrical fire destroyed East End Elementary School.
Mama...
Where are we gonna go to school now?
I'm gonna find you someone you're nice to go now.
Gonna have black kids going to temp school.
Oh, come on.
They gotta put them somewhere.
We gonna beat school segregation once and for all.
You better get your ass down to City Hall tonight.
Who's next?
They say you represent a great many people in this town.
They'd be right about that.
I'm holding a committee meeting.
The council will vote to either adopt or reject school integration.
I need two co-chairs.
You and Ann Atwater.
Ann Atwater?
I'm the president of the Klan.
He's a puppet.
Hand you the keys to school integration.
And you gonna lock the door.
He here.
Would you look at that crazy white man?
Folks in this town want blacks to stay in their own school.
I'm here to protect my family.
So all the better is you don't get in my way.
Well, I'm gonna get in your way.
We're trying to understand each other for once and stop fighting.
This here does the talking for me.
I have a Bible.
Well then, you ought to know.
Know what?
Same God made you made me.
Sometimes...
There are necessary evils for the greater good.
You didn't have to do that
You should have told me.
As long as the C. P. Ellis's of the world keep getting their way...
Ain't nothing gonna change.
She looked at me like I was some kind of monster.
What'd you expect?
I'm the president of the Klan.
I'm supposed to hate black folks.
Now if I don't believe that...
Then I got a problem.
Now what we talking about is important.
And you gonna damn well listen to us!
She in a bad mood today.
