Table Of ContentCONTENTS INTRODUCTION New York, 1804 Angel of the Rockies ONE Clara Brown, Kentucky, 1830s TWO Bleeding Kansas, 1850s THREE Clara Brown, Colorado, 1870s The Next Needed Thing FOUR Virginia Randolph, Virginia, 1890 FIVE Henrico County, Virginia, 1907 America the Beautiful SIX Katharine Lee Bates, Cape Cod, 1859 SEVEN Katharine Lee Bates, England, 1880s EIGHT Katharine Lee Bates, Chicago, 1890s Forward Out of Darkness NINE Inez Milholland, New York, 1910 TEN Maria de Lopez, California, 1911 ELEVEN Rebecca Brown Mitchell, Idaho, 1856 TWELVE Inez Milholland, the West, 1916 THIRTEEN France, 1916 An Orientation of the Spirit FOURTEEN Anna Thomas Jeanes, Philadelphia, 1822 FIFTEEN William James Edwards, Alabama, 1869 SIXTEEN Julius Rosenwald, Illinois, 1862 SEVENTEEN Booker T. Washington, Virginia, 1856 Go for Broke EIGHTEEN The Inouyes, Hawaii, 1924 NINETEEN The Minetas, California, 1942 TWENTY Daniel Inouye, Europe, 1943 TWENTY-ONE Norman Mineta, 1950s Momentum TWENTY-TWO Claudette Colvin, Alabama, 1950s TWENTY-THREE Septima Clark, Charleston,South Carolina, 1898 TWENTY-FOUR America, 1950s TWENTY-FIVE Teenagers in the American South, 1950s TWENTY-SIX Montgomery, Alabama, 1955 CONCLUSION Acknowledgments Notes
SynopsisA #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From America's favorite government teacher, a "fascinating and fun" (Adam Grant) portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of our country. In The Small and the Mighty , Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn't make it into the textbooks. Not the presidents, but the telephone operators. Not the aristocrats, but the schoolteachers. Through meticulous research, she discovers history's unsung characters and brings their rich, riveting stories to light for the first time. You'll meet a woman astride a white horse riding down Pennsylvania Ave, a young boy detained at a Japanese incarceration camp, a formerly enslaved woman on a mission to reunite with her daughter, a poet on a train, and a teacher who learns to work with her enemies. More than one thing is bombed, and multiple people surprisingly become rich. Some rich with money, and some wealthy with things that matter more. This is a book about what really made America - and Americans - great. McMahon's cast of improbable champions will become familiar friends, lighting the path we journey in our quest to make the world more just, peaceful, good, and free.