Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 LaSalle Corbell Pickett: "What Happened to Me" Chapter 3 Benjamin "Pap" Singleton: Father of the Kansas Exodus Chapter 4 Alexander R. Shepherd: The Haussmannization of Washington, DC Chapter 5 Mary Lease and the Sources of Populist Protest Chapter 6 Clelia Duel Mosher and the Change in Women's Sexuality Chapter 7 Black Zack and Uncle Amon Chapter 8 Ma Rainey: Mother of the Blues Chapter 9 Pauline Newman: Immigration, Jewish Radicalism, and Gender Chapter 10 Gerald L. K. Smith: Political Activist, Candidate, and Preacher of Hate Chapter 11 The Hara Family: The Story of a Nisei Couple Chapter 12 Daisy Bates: The Struggle for Racial Equality Chapter 13 Walter Reuther: The Promise of Modern America Chapter 14 In My Brother's Name: The Life and Death of Spec. 4 Bill Weber Chapter 15 Otto Feinstein, the McCarthy Campaign in Michigan, and Campus Activism during the Cold War Chapter 16 CÈsar Ch·vez: The Serpent and the Dove Chapter 17 Alix Kates Shulman: Novelist, Feminist, Twentieth-Century Woman Chapter 18 Mary Crow Dog: A Story of the American Indian Movement and the United States Chapter 19 Harvey Milk: San Francisco and the Gay Migration Chapter 20 William O. Douglas: The Environmental Justice Chapter 21 Index

About the Author

Charles W. Calhoun is professor of history at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina.