"An account of the impact of organizers on United States history"-- Provided by publisher

Introduction -- Benjamin Lay : the first anti-slavery crusader -- Lydia Maria Child : not all white suffragists -- Maggie Walker : using the tools of the master -- Ida B. Wells : intersectionality pioneer -- Eugene Debs : the American path to socialism -- Clara Lemlich : a revolutionary life -- Frank Little : the martyr -- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn : a rebel life -- Myles Horton : organizing the South for justice -- Lucy Randolph Mason : to win these rights -- Clint Jencks : El Palomino -- Mike Quill : the power of a union -- Robert Williams : organizing through armed self-defense -- Ella Baker : give people light and they will find their own way -- Bob Moses : the organizer of Mississippi -- Yuri Kochiyama : the late-life organizer -- Daniel Berrigan : the power of religious example -- Barbara Gittings : the mother of the gay civil rights movement -- Richard Oakes : the fight for indigenous justice -- Dolores Huerta : a living legend -- Conclusion