Black Leaders on Leadership: Conversations with Julian Bond [Paperback]

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.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

'This book is unique: it reads equally well as a compelling narrative and as an authoritative reference worka 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 Americait 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 diversl³°