Article: The power of purpose: strategies for discovering your path.(PEAK PERFORMANCE)

UNIT A BLACKWELL FOUND HER LIFE'S PURPOSE DURING A PROTEST against disenfranchisement in the segregated South of the 1960s. Standing outside the door of the county courthouse in Lula, Mississippi, Blackwell told the officer that sought to disrupt her voter registration drive, "We come to register to vote, and we ain't leaving."

As the words passed her lips, Blackwell realized that she was meant to serve her community in a capacity that would evoke change. Her passion led her to become a project director for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, run by civil rights leader Stokley Carmichael.

Later, she served as the first black female mayor in ...

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