Samuel Adams Leadership

The great leaders of yesterday and today have proved to be very influential throughout history. A leader can be defined simply as someone who rises up and creates a path for those who cannot do it themselves. Samuel Adams led the United States through the process of gaining the new country an identity. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. guided the black community through southern racism, and is responsible for the advancement of civil rights in the twentieth century. Susan B. Anthony was the head of the women’s rights movement to gain female suffrage. All of these leaders share something in common; for without the support of the every day people of the world, none of the three would have been successful in their goals as leaders. After failing as a brewer and a publisher, most people would give up on their acquiring any success in life. Samuel Adams may have been unsuccessful in his initial fields of expertise, but he put his failures aside and became a key figure in the movement to
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. rose to the top of the nonviolent civil rights movement. He organized leaders across the country to join him in his march against white supremacy. King was an incredible speaker, writer, and leader. All of King’s work paid off when Congress passed the 1964 Civil Rights Acts, which made segregation illegal throughout the country. King demonstrated his support of this act by organizing one of the most successful events in United States History. Over 200,000 blacks and whites participated in the peaceful March on Washington. A great deal of King’s accomplishments should be credited to the common black man of the 1950s. A number of normal people risked their lives by participating in King’s boycotts and protests, for hundreds of blacks were killed in these