The small and the mighty twelve unsung Americans who changed the course of history, from the founding to the civil rights movement

"From America's favorite government teacher, a heartfelt, inspiring 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 tex...

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Main Author: McMahon, Sharon, 1949- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Thesis, [2024]
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Table of Contents:
  • New York, 1804
  • Angel of the Rockies. Clara Brown, Kentucky, 1830s
  • Bleeding Kansas, 1850s
  • Clara Brown, Colorado, 1870s
  • The next needed thing. Virginia Randolph, Virginia, 1890
  • Henrico County, Virginia, 1907
  • America the Beautiful. Katharine Lee Bates, Cape Cod, 1859
  • Katharine Lee Bates, England, 1880s
  • Katharine Lee Bates, Chicago, 1890s
  • Forward out of darkness. Inez Milholland, New York, 1910
  • Maria de Lopez, California, 1911
  • Rebecca Brown Mitchell, Idaho, 1856
  • Inez Milholland, the West, 1916
  • France, 1916
  • An orientation of the spirit. Anna Thomas Jeanes, Philadelphia, 1822
  • William James Edwards, Alabama, 1869
  • Julius Rosenwald, Illinois, 1862
  • Booker T. Washington, Virginia, 1856
  • Go for broke. The Inouyes, Hawaii, 1924
  • The Minetas, California, 1942
  • Daniel Inouye, Europe, 1943
  • Norman Mineta, 1950s
  • Momentum. Claudette Colvin, Alabama, 1950s
  • Septima Clark, Charleston, South Carolina, 1898
  • America, 1950s
  • Teenagers in the American South, 1950s
  • Montgomery, Alabama, 1955.