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A Time To Protest: Leadership Lessons from My Father Who Survived the Segregated South for 99 Years
There are many ways to protest...many ways to address injustices, many ways to right a wrong. A real leader sets positive examples to empower others. This book is about such a leader--a farmer, janitor, coal miner, factory worker, land owner, and landlord--who embodied leadership while living in the Jim Crow South for 99 years. He lived a life of protest during a time when protest cost people their lives.
His life of protest was highlighted when, at the age of 95, he gifted then-Senator Barack Obama who went on to serve as America's 44th President, with a hand-made cane. Griot extraordinaire, he shared stories of standing up and speaking out against the injustices prevalent in America for a major portion of his life.
This book shares his stories validated through historical facts and events that underscore the many ways to protest: education, voting, self-respect, hard work--all that he and his wife instilled in their 10 children who have all gone on to become leaders in their own right.
Standing up and speaking out are the marks of a true leader and these are the valuable leadership lessons you will learn when you read this powerful book.
Penny says
Blue says, “This book is a book of history—the history of America that helped shape my ancestors’ and father’s environments, along with my father’s stories of protest that helped shape mine and my siblings’ lives.”
She describes this powerful book as one about her father who, as he navigated the treacherous politics and powers of the segregated south in southwestern Virginia, left a legacy of protest through the way he lived his life and the stories he shared with his ten children.
The main theme of the book is standing up and speaking out for what is just and right. The many local stories of Blue’s father’s protests helped to mold his children’s work ethic, their drive for justice, education, politics, and to help the underserved.
The narrative underscores many ways to protest; education, voting, self-respect, hard work - all which Penny’s father and his wife instilled in their children. “In order to be treated as first-class citizen, one must act as a first-class citizen.”