Abul Pitre is professor at Prairie View A&M University in the Department of Educational Leadership and Counseling. He was appointed Edinboro University’s first named professor for his outstanding work in African-American education and held the distinguished title of the Carter G. Woodson Professor of Education.

• About the Critical Black Pedagogy in Education SeriesSeries ForewordPrefaceIntroductionChapter 1: Purpose of EducationChapter 2: Leadership as LoveChapter 3: Servant LeadershipChapter 4: Transformative LeadershipChapter 5: Futuristic LeadershipBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Abul Pitre’s Educational Leadership and Louis Farrakhan, examines the muliti-dimensional area of educational leadership in very thorough and penetrating ways. Pitre is both cautious and daring as he painstakingly takes the reader through the nuanced literature. He knows that it is Minister Louis Farrakhan whose ideas about educational leadership he is sharing with the academic world. I, for one, am very happy that he has done so.Minister Farrakhan’s body of work as a leader, teacher and scholar is vast. Moreover, the evidence of the effectiveness of his educational leadership is evidenced in the success and longevity of the Nation of Islam’s own programs. As I read Abul Pitre’s manuscript, I found myself highlighting almost every line. This was particularly so in Chapter 5 where I felt Pitre’s writing most vividly captured the spirit of Minister Farrakhan’s educational leadership and vision.