Black Leaders on Leadership, 2014
Conversations with Julian Bond
Palgrave Studies in Oral History Series

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

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).