African American women have overcome unprecedented adversity historically and have now arisen to a place of noteworthy success and notoriety. Two of my personal favorites among African American women are Rosa Parks and Oprah Winfrey.
Rosa Parks was an African American seamstress and civil possession activist whom the U.S. Congress dubbed the "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil possession Movement". Parks is preponderant for her refusal on December 1, 1955 to obey bus driver James Blake's demand that she relinquish her seat to a white passenger. Her subsequent arrest and trial for this act of civil disobedience triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycott, one of the largest and most prosperous mass movements against racial segregation in history, and launched Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the organizers of the boycott, to the forefront of the civil possession movement. Her role in American history earned her an iconic status in American culture, and her actions have left an enduring patrimony for civil possession movements around the world.
Oprah Winfrey after her birth spent her first six years living in rural poverty with her Grandma Hattie Mae. Winfrey's grandmother taught her to read before the age of three and took her to the local church, where she was nicknamed "The Preacher" for her quality to narrate Bible verses. At age six Oprah moved to an inner city ghetto in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with her mother.
Winfrey was molested by her cousin, uncle, and a family friend. This traumatic taste deeply effected Oprah, but at the same time amazingly enabled her to feel for women, who would later come to be her major audience across the world. Turning her personal mess into a message, Oprah has mightily arisen as a global voice for women, an advocate for their rights, and a motherly figurehead who daily nurtures women throughout the world through her Tv broadcast.
Despite her dysfunctional home life, Winfrey skipped two of her earliest grades, became the teacher's pet, and by the time she was 13 received a scholarship to attend High School in the suburbs. Like many teenagers at the end of the 1960s, Winfrey rebelled, ran away from home and ran the streets. When she was 14, her frustrated mom sent her to live with her father in Nashville, Tennessee. Vernon was strict, but encouraging and made her education a priority. Winfrey became an honors learner and was voted "Most beloved Girl."
Other aspects of Oprah's journey to success consist of her joining her high school speech team, and placing second in the nation in dramatic interpretation. She won an oratory contest, which secured her a full scholarship to Tennessee State University, where she studied communications. At age 18, Winfrey won the Miss Black Tennessee charm pageant.
Oprah's true media career began at age 17, when Winfrey worked at a local radio station while attending Tsu. Working in local media, she was both the youngest news anchor and the first black female news anchor at Nashville's Wlac-Tv. She moved to Baltimore's Wjz-Tv in 1976 to co-anchor the six o'clock news. She was then recruited as co-host of Wjz's local talk show citizen Are Talking, which premiered on August 14, 1978.
In 1983, Winfrey relocated to Chicago to host Wls-Tv's low-rated half-hour morning talk-show, Am Chicago. The first lesson aired on January 2, 1984. Within months after Winfrey took over, the show went from last place in the ratings to overtaking Donahue as the top rated talk show in Chicago. It was renamed The Oprah Winfrey Show, expanded to a full hour, and broadcast nationally starting September 8, 1986.
Time magazine wrote, "Few citizen would have bet on Oprah Winfrey's swift rise to host of the most beloved talk show on Tv. In a field dominated by white males, she is a black female of ample bulk."
Oprah speedily silenced her critics by taking her show to the top. Her uncomplicated curiosity, delightful humor, and endearing empathy attracts viewers of all walks of life. production citizen feel safe in her presence, affirming their personhood, and encouraging their inherent Oprah's show provides viewers throughout the world a group therapy and personal empowerment session.
What leadership lessons can we learn from Rosa Parks and Oprah Winfrey:
1. Stand up for yourself. Don't be afraid defy the status quo and say no!
2. Disobedience in the eyes of men is sometimes obedience in the eyes of God.
3. Be bold as a lion and rule the jungle.
4. Liberation for you means liberation for others.
5. Turn your mess into a message.
6. Your pain is the power of your purpose.
7. Your adversity is your testimony.
8. Pursue education and demonstration of your personhood.
9. Maximize the media to progress the message.
10. progress your heart and progress your world.
11. Empathize with others providing a sympathetic ear.
12. Love unconditionally and live wholeheartedly.
There is nothing new under the sun. Apply these ladies leadership secrets to your own life and live your dreams.
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