Titlebook: Servants of the People; The 1960s Legacy of Lea E. Williams Book 1996 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 1996 African A

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Claiming the Legacy: Leadership for the Twenty-First Centurye countless African American and white crusaders and martyrs, some well-known and revered, others unsung and anonymous: Rosa Parks, who sparked the Montgomery bus boycott; Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley, youngsters killed in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street

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Whitney M. Young Jr. and Vanguard Leadershiplated new approaches to urban unemployment and job discrimination, introduced innovative programs, and attracted major new corporate support. During this period, the league staff quadrupled and the budget increased tenfold.. Corporate giving went from $70,000 to $1,973,000.. Young elevated the league to new heights.

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Adam Clayton Powell Jr.: The Uses and Abuses of Charismatic Powerhe eighteenth pastor of a mainly conservative congregation in Harlem did not cause Powell to moderate his debonair lifestyle. If anything he became more defiantly determined to live life on his own terms while using his church platform to champion his social action agenda.

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Thurgood Marshall, a Drum Major for Justiceonal Fund, known as the “Inc. Fund.” The financial remuneration was small; the staff of young crusaders, at first, very few; the daily regimen grinding and physically exhausting; yet, the accomplishments were precedent-setting.

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Fannie Lou Hamer, the Voice of a Servant-Leaderf the most outspoken voices in the fight for equality in Mississippi. Freedom had a high price tag. In attempting to register to vote, Hamer was evicted from her home on a sharecropping plantation, jailed, and viciously beaten, the last of which left her health permanently impaired; yet, she refused to be deterred.