Introduction: Tea and cigars: The case for friendship
An exchange of letters: Benjamin Banneker and Thomas Jefferson
Three meetings: Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
Color lines: W.E.B. Du Bois and William James
First ladies: Mary McLeod Bethune and Eleanor Roosevelt
Veins: Ralph Ellison, Shirley Jackson, and Stanly Hyman
Scripts: James Baldwin and Marlon Brando
Mocambo: Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe
Riverside: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
Icons and intersectionalities: Angela David and Gloria Steinem
A bestowal: Barack Obama and Joe Biden.