| International Standard Book Number |
9781420525588 (hardcover ; large print)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1420525581 (hardcover ; large print)
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| Personal Name |
McMahon, Sharon, 1977- author.
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| Title Statement |
The small and the mighty : twelve unsung Americans who changed the course of history, from the founding to the civil rights movement / Sharon McMahon.
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| Edition Statement |
Large print edition
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
[Waterville, ME] : Thorndike Press Large Print, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
515 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-511).
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| Formatted Contents Note |
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.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"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." -- Publisher's description.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Liberty.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Social reformers United States Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Social reformers History. United States
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
United States Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
United States History.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Large print books.
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