How Did Harriet Tubman Become a Leader?

Harriet Tubman was unlikely. Harriet tubman was a middle aged african american slave who escaped. She's not educated, but she goes back, in the decade before the civil war, to bring out about 80 other slaves to freedom. If you'd had a leadership course and put her in there, she wouldn't have jumped out. Of the 13 people we profiled, doctor king is the guy. He was adaptable. He was humble. But one week he would compromise. On the march across, he edmond prittage pettisbridge and selma. The next week, he would get himself put in jail to push something. That flexibility, that