First, Best: Lessons in Leadership and Legacy from Today's Civil Rights Movement Reed Steven L.
First, Best: Lessons in Leadership and Legacy from Today's Civil Rights Movement Reed Steven L. The first Black mayor of Montgomery, Alabama, shares his story of making his way in a world that wasn't…
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First, Best: Lessons in Leadership and Legacy from Today's Civil Rights Movement Reed Steven L.
The first Black mayor of Montgomery, Alabama, shares his story of making his way in a world that wasn't built for him, drawing on his rich heritage as the son of a civil rights leader.As a proud son of Joe L. Reed grew up hearing stories about how his father integrated Montgomery lunch counters and took advice directly from Dr. Reed, Steven L.
and Reverend Ralph Abernathy. Martin Luther King Jr. However, it wasn't until Reed was in the fourth grade and received a death threat against his father that he began to understand more fully the importance of the lessons his father was trying to impart.
At this pivotal moment, his father explained, "My job is to prepare you to be a cross-bearer and not just a crown-wearer. Bigotry has no place in our household. It will only hold you down and make you small."First, Best is an essential antidote to the perpetual