Drawing on a wealth of oral interviews, Conversations on Black Leadership uses the lives of prominent African Americans to trace the contours of Black leadership in America. Included here are fascinating accounts from a wide variety of figures such as John Lewis, Clarence Thomas, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Angela Davis, Amiri Baraka, and many more.
Autorentext
Phyllis Leffler is the Director of the Institute for Public History and Professor at the University of Virginia. She is the co-author of Public and Academic History: A Philosophy and Paradigm (1991) and Public History Readings (1990) and has published award-winning articles in The Public Historian and the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. She is the co-director of the Explorations in Black Leadership project at UVA (www.blackleadership.virginia.edu).
Julian Bond is a prominent African American activist, politician, and teacher who served from 1998 to 2010 as the chairman of the National Association for the Advancement for Colored People and the co-director of the Explorations in Black Leadership project at UVA. He was also the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center and served a combined twenty terms in both houses of the Georgia Legislature. Among his books are Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table: A Documentary History ofthe Civil Rights Movement (1995) and Lift Every Voice and Sing: A Celebration of the Negro National Anthem, 100 Years, 100 Voices (2000).
Inhalt
Black Leaders on Leadership: Conversations with Julian Bond Table of Contents Foreward by Julian Bond Black Leader Biographies A Note About the Web and Use of QR Codes Acknowledgements Introduction Black Leadership: A Collective Biography 1. Defining Self: Oral history, Story-Telling, and Leadership 2. Families: Extended and Fictive Kin, Racial Socialization, Diligence 3. Education: Caring Communities 4. Networks: Role Models, Mentors, Organizations 5. Law and Social Change: Catalyst for Leadership 6. The Civil Rights Movement: Grassroots Leadership 7. Leadership Lessons Appendices A Leadership Questions B - Glossary Bibliography
Titel
Black Leaders on Leadership
Untertitel
Conversations with Julian Bond
Autor
EAN
9781137342515
ISBN
978-1-137-34251-5
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Genre
Veröffentlichung
04.12.2014
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Dateigrösse
4.3 MB
Anzahl Seiten
353
Jahr
2014
Untertitel
Englisch
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