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Personal Experience: Transformational Journey In Cultural Leadership

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1. Please share about an accomplishment that has given you a great sense of pride. How will the skills and knowledge you gained from this experience aid in your success at FSC? There are several accomplishments that have made me proud of myself but the one I feel most proud of would be when I went on my "Transformational Journey" in Cultural Leadership. On one of the stops in our 21 day journey we stopped in Money, MS at the infamous Bryant 's Grocery Store where Emmett Till was accused of whistling at Mrs. Carolyn Bryant and was later murdered. Sparking the flame that lit the Civil Rights Movement. When I and about 25 others got off of our air conditioned bus and stepped into the hot Mississippi Sun we couldn 't help but notice that the marker honoring the history that took place was badly vandalized by some fools that thought …show more content…

When we saw this we automatically thought that we had to do something. So what did we do? well, since we were a bunch of teenagers. One of our first

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