Servants of the People

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