Foreword
Acknowledgements
Leadership within communities and families
Introduction : Black women in leadership : their historical and contemporary contributions / by Dannielle Joy Davis and Cassandra Chaney
Black women's legislative influence / by Nadia Brown
Black women and leadership in the church / by Kaye Thompson-Rogers
African American mothers leading daughters / by Virginia Cook Tickles
Leadership in education
Each one, teach one : Black women's historical contributions to education / by Ezella McPherson
Black women's historical leadership in African American home education / by Rhonda Hudson and Dannielle Davis
Black women as educational leaders : emotional neutrality and psychic duality / by Talia R. Esnard, Laurette Bristol, and Launcelot Brown
Sisters of the academy : cultivating leadership and collaboration among black women / by Dannielle Joy Davis, Virginia Cook Tickles, Montressa Washington, Ifeoma Amah, and Monika Hudson
The leadership of first lady Michelle Obama : perceptions of Black female college students / by Cassandra Chaney
"If they don't make a place for us, we should make a place for ourselves" : African American women and nursing at state community college / by Ishwanzya D. Rivers
Higher education leadership : one Black woman's journey / by Menah Pratt-Clarke
Leadership and self-care among black women
The "double outsider's" challenges to professional success : implications for Black women's leadership / by Keisha Edwards Tassie and Sonja M. Brown Givens
Working toward self-care : the role of vicarious traumatization in Black female mental health professionals / by Nakisha A. Scott
Honoring the lateness of the day : opportunistic shifts in the personal leadership sojournes of African American professional women at second adulthood / by S. Alease Ferguson and Toni C. King
Overcoming gender and race issues in the workplace / by Jacqueline Fancher Marn.