"We were asked to leave. We did not, and we were arrested and locked up for the night," Charles McLaurin.
Determined to secure the right to vote for herself and for future generations.
"The line was drawn in the sand for blacks and whites... I decided to cross that line," Dorie Ladner.
"We began to rethink some of the attitudes that we had lived with," John Howell.
"We knew that we were working to do better, and that one day it would be better," Anita Walton Moore.
The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King forever bound the two men in history.
Watch Chapter 1 of Roads to Memphis.
Jack Miley, sports columnist for the New York Daily News, admitted he underestimated Max Schmeling in 1936.
Champion boxers were some of the best paid athletes in the world — but the businessmen behind the bouts saw the greatest profits.
Boxing manager Joe Jacobs was an unstoppable public relations dynamo.
Roxborough appeared to Louis as "well encased in dignity and legitimacy." Roxborough saw in Louis the chance to make big money.
Read the stories of the 1936 and 1938 Louis–Schmeling fights, as recalled by the boxers in their autobiographies.
