Servants of the People: The 1960s Legacy of African American Leadership

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Overview

Beginning with the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case, this book traces the lives of six American civil rights leaders as they willingly risk their lives for the civil rights cause: A. Philip Randolph, Frederick D. Patterson, Thurgood Marshall, Whitney M. Young, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and Fannie Lou Hamer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312163723
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	12/13/1996
Edition description:	1996
Pages:	253
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

www.leaewilliams.com

Lea E. Williams is an independent scholar living in Greensboro, North Carolina who lectures on African American leadership during the civil rights movement. She is the former executive director of the Women’s Leadership Institute at Bennett College and the National African-American Women’s Leadership Institute, Inc. Awards and honors include the Woman of Achievement Award in Education of the Greensboro Commission on the Status of Women and the Hilda A. Davis Award for Educational Leadership of the National Association for Women in Education. Currently she is a senior administrator at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Revised Edition: Reflections a Decade Later Dynamic Times Call for Dynamic Leaders Leadership Defined PART I: THE FORERUNNERS: SECURING SAFE PASSAGE A. Philip Randolph: Dean of Black Civil Rights Leaders Frederick D. Patterson: Leading by Precept and Example PART II: THE NEGOTIATORS: BUILDING CONSENSUS Thurgood Marshall: A Drum Major for Justice Whitney M. Young Jr. and Vanguard Leadership PART III: THE PROVOCATUERS: CATCHING FIRE Adam Clayton Powell Jr.: The Uses and Abuses of Charismatic Power Fannie Lou Hamer: The Voice of a Servant-Leader PART IV: WOMEN IN THE MOVEMENT Making a Life, Not Making a Living: The Servant Leadership of Ella Baker Teacher, Advocate, Trailblazer: The Living Legacy of Septima Poinsette Clark PART V: CONCLUSIONS Whence and Wherefore Claiming the Legacy: Leadership for the Twenty-first Century PART VI: SUPPLEMENT FOR TEACHERS AND FUTURE LEADERS

Editorial Reviews

Profiles six civil rights leaders and draws lessons for African American leaders a generation later. They are presented as the forerunners A. Philip Randolph and Frederick D. Patterson, the negotiators Thurgood Marshall and Whitney M. Young, and the provocateurs Adam Clayton Powell and Fannie Lou Hamer. Includes a chronology and a supplement for teachers and future leaders. The vocabulary and sentence complexity are suitable for undergraduates and older. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

Praise for the first edition:

"An informative and illuminating study of African-American leaders in the Sixties . . . A fascinating journey through the lives of those who gave the Civil Rights movement its foundation." - Library Journal

"A helpful supplement where leadership issues are being debated." - Booklist

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