 Theirs is a profoundly American story, a story of racial hatred and redemption in the American South. It's a story of an unlikely friendship between black and white, an unbelievable relationship that formed at the height of the civil rights movement and continues to this day. He was the exalted cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan in Durham, North Carolina. She was the leader of the United Organizations for Community Improvement, a militant black protest group.