Carman: To fill Colorado's leadership vacuum, look no further than the teachers, preachers or the nurse next door

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Carman: To fill Colorado's leadership vacuum, look no further than the teachers, preachers or the nurse next door

Academics who study the science of leadership talk about the kinds of people who dare to lift their heads out of the foxholes during times of crisis. Ida B. Wells, Nelson Mandela, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Susan B. Anthony are just a few. There also was Colorado Gov. Ralph Carr, who took an unpopular stand against Japanese internment during World War II; Capt. Silas Soule, who testified to the truth of what happened during the…