David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

Western schoolchild, the Tortoise beats
the Hare through sheer persistence and
effort. Slow and steady wins the race.
That’s an appropriate and powerful
lesson—but only in a world where the
Tortoise and the Hare are playing by the
same rules, and where everyone’s effort
is rewarded. In a world that isn’t fair—
and no one would have called
Birmingham in 1963 fair—the Terrapin
has to place his relatives at strategic
points along the racecourse. The
trickster is not a trickster by nature. He
is a trickster by necessity. In the next
great civil rights showdown in Selma,
Alabama, two years later, a
photographer from Life magazine put