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

Máire Drumm.^8 She had a bullhorn. She
marched through the streets, shouting to
the women: “Come out! Fill your prams
with bread and milk! The children
haven’t gotten any food.”
The women started to gather in groups
of two and four and ten and twenty, until
they numbered in the thousands. “Some
people still had their rollers in their
hair, and their scarves over their head,”
Lawlor remembered. “We linked arms
and sang, ‘We shall overcome. We shall
overcome someday.’
“We got down to the bottom of the
hill,” she went on. “The atmosphere was
electric. The Brits were standing with
their helmets and their guns—all ready.