Podcast Episode 016: Five Powerful Lessons for Change-Makers from Diahann Carroll’s Life
Episode Summary:
Gloria distinctly remembers when Diahann Carroll broke through a major television barrier by starring in the hit sitcom, Julia. Diahann was a black actress starring in a hit television show during the height of the Civil Rights Movement in 1968, a task that required courage, tenacity, and aplomb. In the midst of cultural unrest, Carroll was the first African-American woman to have the starring role in her own television show.
Gloria argues that this was as momentous a step forward for racial equality as Rosa Parks’ refusal to go to the back of the bus because media images are so powerful in creating social change and challenging the status quo. In this episode, Gloria lists and breaks down the five powerful lessons for change-makers from Diahann Carroll’s life.
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Resources
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- Diahann Carroll on IMDB
- The Civil Rights Movement
- U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v Board of Education decision
- Diahann Carroll obituary in the New York Times
- Washington Post article “Without Diahann Carroll, we wouldn’t have Olivia Pope”
Books Mentioned
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No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, by Gloria Feldt
Social Links
TAKE THE LEAD’S WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA
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Quotes / Tweetables
“While racial desegregation in public schools had been affirmed by the United States Supreme Court’s landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision fourteen years earlier, bitter resistance to integration still roiled, and the implementation of racial equality had shown itself to be far more challenging than changing laws.”
— Gloria Feldt
“My involvement in the Civil Rights Movement years after that taught me that people banding together for a righteous cause can make change.”
— Gloria Feldt
“Be intentional about your steps forward. Once accepted, the steps forward can become increasingly bold and authentic.”
— Gloria Feldt
“Remember, a movement has to move. There’s no stopping after a victory because it’s too easy to backslide. Changemakers must always be visual and proactive, setting the agenda and defining the public narrative.”
— Gloria Feldt
“Never underestimate your impact on the next person.”
— Gloria Feldt
GLORIA FELDT is the New York Times bestselling author of several books including No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, a sought-after speaker and frequent contributor to major news outlets, and the Co-Founder and President of Take The Lead. People has called her “the voice of experience,” and among the many honors she has been given, Vanity Fair called her one of America’s “Top 200 Women Legends, Leaders, and Trailblazers,” and Glamour chose her as a “Woman of the Year.”
As co-founder and president of Take The Lead, a leading women’s leadership nonprofit, her mission is to achieve gender parity by 2025 through innovative training programs, workshops, a groundbreaking 50 Women Can Change The World immersive, online courses, a free weekly newsletter, and events including a monthly Virtual Happy Hour program and a Take The Lead Day symposium that reached over 400,000 women globally in 2017.