comer, james p

An exploration of the qualities of leadership as displayed in prominent African Americans, including interviews with L. Douglas Wilder, Governor of Virginia; Marian Wright Edelman, founder and director of the Children's Defense Fund; and Dr. James P. Comer, director ofthe Yale University Child Study Center.

An educator and child psychiatrist chronicles the life of his mother, an African American woman who guided and inspired her family through her own determination to rise above the limitations imposed by poverty and racial prejudice.