"New Leadership" is Harold Washington's Acceptance Speech as Mayor of Chicago on April 12, 1983. It is followed by an assignment which requires students to provide evidence from the text; it includes comparing Washington's election as mayor to the 2008 election of Barack Obama using the chart provided, then writing an essay making the comparison using evidence from the text and knowledge of the 2008 election. This passage aligns with Common Core Anchor Reading Standard 1 requiring close reading, textual evidence, main idea, integrating ideas from different sources, and summarizing.