9 Why People Lead and Others Follow: The Black Perspective
Introduction and Overview
Historical Development of African American Leadership
To understand our current Black leaders, we must look at how history, in context, has influenced the present. Beginning 400 years ago, slavery, as practiced in the US, provided a difficult and painful legacy that has damaged our society. There is a growing historical record told by Black people or by Black leaders of the time. The names of Black leaders we recognize from the period around the Civil War have become icons: Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and Alexander Augusta. People are less familiar with Dr. Augusta, ...
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