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
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).
'This book is unique: it reads equally well as a compelling
narrative and as an authoritative reference work—a rare feat
indeed.' - Michael A. Mallory, Executive Director, Ron Brown
Scholar Program
"Leffler and Bond have put together a book of vital importance to
the critical work of developing and fostering Black leadership in
America—it also happens to be a remarkably comprehensive account of
the greatest movement for justice in American history. Like the
Federal Writers' Project to compile slave narratives, Black Leaders
on Leadership provides first-hand accounts of the valiant struggles
of some of the most important activists America has ever produced.
It should be required reading in the curriculum of every high
school in America." - Wade Henderson, President & CEO of The
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, The Leadership
Conference Education Fund
'Black Leaders on Leadership is indeed a remarkable work. The
diverse experiences and perspectives of the men and women
chronicled in these pages (and available through digitized videos)
make this book essential reading for all who wish to understand the
history of the United States in the Twentieth and Twenty-First
centuries.' - Annette Gordon-Reed, Charles Warren Professor of
American Legal History, Professor of History, and Carol K.
Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced
Study, Harvard University, USA
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