I love stories of unlikely friendships.  

"The Best of Enemies" on Netflix is that kind of story, based on actual events in North Carolina, 1971.  

After the burning of the elementary school for black kids, a man named Bill Riddick was invited to Durham to help the citizens decide the question of school integration.  

The leader of the local Klan and a spunky activist who fought for equal rights were asked to lead the group under Riddick's leadership,  employing his rules--both sides would listen to each other, what anyone said would be recorded on the blackboard, and the person sitting beside you at lunch "could not be the same color as you."  

We've all read about this type of group--among Israelis and Palestinians, liberals and conservatives,  and others resolutely opposed to each other.  A grassroots opening of dialogue.  Curiosity about the window through which the other looked at the world.  Leaving the echo chamber of soap boxes and megaphones and learning to listen.

No one could have predicted that two people who started out hating the other would make even a baby step towards friendship, but these two started a friendship that lasted for the rest of their lives.