Margolick, David

Examines the careers of both Joe Louis and Max Schmeling, their historic matches in 1936 and 1938 in the midst of Nazism, and the cultural and social divisions the two men came to represent.

Traces the history of "Strange Fruit," a controversial ballad about a lynched African-American man hanging from a tree, popularized by jazz singer Billie Holiday in the 1940s.

Offers insight into the lives of Elizabeth Eckford, an African American woman who was one of the Little Rock Nine, and Hazel Bryan, a woman who attended Little Rock Central High School and was photographed shouting racial epithets at Elizabeth outside of the school, and looks at the impact of their reconciliation on the lives of these two women and on the community.