The book begins with an introduction focused on New York in 1804 and concludes with the final chapter in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama. The people in these chapters are the Small and Mighty, and the common thread in what they did clearly shows that they made a big difference.
The author tells us that “Often the small are truly the mighty. Their stories may be eclipsed by a dominant sun, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t ours to discover.”
“Ken Burns said of Sharon McMahon that what she does is not just tell a top-down version of the past but a bottom-up version.
Ken Burns said: There are no ordinary people