Option #2: Leadership Analysis Presentation Attached is the leaders for this project For this Portfolio Project presentation, you will choose two well-known leaders in different countries and culture

Running head: PROFOLIO MILESTONE 1

Portfolio Milestone: Leadership Analysis Presentation: Choose Your Leaders

Tamyra Mitchell

ORG 515

Colorado State University-Global Campus

Leadership Analysis Presentation: Choose Your Leaders

Discussing two leaders for my final project there are two leaders I would be discussing in my final project would be Michelle Obama and Fred Hampton. Both leaders played a huge part into the civil rights movement and achieving many goals for African American people. Fred Hampton was an American activist and revolutionary socialist. Fred Hampton was an active leader in the National Association for Advancement for Colored People (NAACP) and a member of the Black Panther Party in Chicago (Flood, 2014, p. 38). His mission as a leader was to have equal rights for African Americans in the United States where they will feel equal and providing education to many African American communities that did not receive the same benefits as many other communities (Flood, 2014, p. 38). Not only did Fred Hampton help with uniting students of different races and background he also convinced local gang members in Chicago to put aside their differences and unite. In just 21 years, Fred Hampton accomplished so much for African Americans in Chicago that he became a threat with the FBI and was murdered in a Chicago raid in 1969. Fred Hampton contributed a lot to African Americans and left a huge impact and a legacy that many realize Fred Hampton as a national leader (Flood, 2014, p. 38).

The next leader I will be discussing in my final project would be Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama was more popular than her husband Barack Obama as United States previous first lady based on her leadership qualities and personality (Griffin, 2011, p. 139). Michelle Obama represent what a woman in a leadership represent and continue to be even after leaving the White House. Before she became the First Lady, Michelle Obama was already an accomplished lawyer in Chicago, a writer and a community activist. Once she became the First Lady Michelle Obama became a role model for many women in America (Kahl, 2009, p. 319). Within her 8 years as the First Lady she focused on racism, women rights and public health and even after leaving the White House she continues to address the same issues (Griffin, 2011, p. 139).

References

Flood, D. R. (2014). A Black Panther in the Great White North: Fred Hampton Visits Saskatchewan, 1969. Journal for the Study of Radicalism, 8(2), 21–49. https://doi.org/10.14321/jstudradi.8.2.0021

Griffin, F. J. (2011). At Last …?: Michelle Obama, Beyoncé, Race & History. Daedalus, 140(1), 131–141. https://doi.org/10.1162/daed_a_00065

Kahl, M. L. (2009). First Lady Michelle Obama: Advocate for Strong Families. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 6(3), 316–320. https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420903063794