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- Who Was Stokely Carmichael?
- Early Life
- Education
- Freedom Rides
- Freedom Summer with The SNCC
- Radical Turn and SNCC Chairman
- 'Black Power'
- Joining The Black Panther Party
- Name Change and Move to Guinea
- Death and Legacy
Stokely Carmichael rose to prominence as a member and later the chairman of the SNCC, working with Martin Luther King Jr. and other Southern leaders to stage protests. Carmichael later lost faith in the tactic of nonviolence, promoting "Black Power" and allying himself with the militant Black Panther Party. Renaming himself Kwame Ture, he spent mos...
Carmichael was born on June 29, 1941, in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Carmichael's parents immigrated to New York when he was a toddler, leaving him in the care of his grandmother until the age of 11 when he followed his parents to the United States. His mother, Mabel, was a stewardess for a steamship line, and his father, Adolphus, worked a...
In 1956, Carmichael passed the admissions test to get into the prestigious Bronx High School of Science, where he was introduced to an entirely different social set—the children of New York City's rich white liberal elite. Carmichael was popular among his new classmates; he attended parties frequently and dated white girls. However, even at that ag...
While a freshman at Howard University in 1961, Carmichael went on his first Freedom Ride— an integrated bus tour through the South to challenge the segregation of interstate travel. During that trip, he was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for entering the "whites only" bus stop waiting room and jailed for 49 days. Undeterred, Carmichael remained a...
Carmichael left school at a critical moment in the history of the civil rights movement: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee had dubbed the summer of 1964 "Freedom Summer," and rolled out an aggressive campaign to register Black voters in the Deep South. With his eloquence, charisma and natural leadership skills, the newly minted college ...
Early in his time with the SNCC, Carmichael adhered to the philosophy of nonviolent resistance espoused by King. In addition to moral opposition to violence, proponents of nonviolent resistance believed that the strategy would win public support for civil rights by drawing a sharp contrast — captured on nightly television — between the peacefulness...
In June 1966, after activist James Meredithwas shot during his solitary "Walk Against Fear" from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi. Carmichael decided that SNCC volunteers should carry on the march in his place. Upon reaching Greenwood, Mississippi, the enraged leader gave the address for which he would be best remembered: "We been saying...
In 1967, Carmichael took a transformative journey, traveling outside the United States to visit with revolutionary leaders in Cuba, North Vietnam, China and Guinea. Upon his return to the United States, he left the SNCC and became prime minister of the more radical Black Panthers. He spent the next two years speaking around the country and writing ...
In 1969, Carmichael quit the Black Panthers and left the United States to take up permanent residence in Conakry, Guinea. "America does not belong to the Blacks," he said, explaining his departure from the country. He changed his name to Kwame Ture to honor both the president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, and the president of Guinea, Sékou Touré, and de...
Ture was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1996, and although it is unclear precisely what he meant, he said publicly that his cancer "was given to me by forces of American imperialism and others who conspired with them." The ailing revolutionary was treated at New York City's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in his final years, before he passe...
In May 1967, Life magazine published photographer Gordon Parks’s groundbreaking images and profile of Stokely Carmichael, the young and controversial civil-rights leader who, as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, issued the call for Black Power in a speech in Mississippi in June 1966, eliciting national headlines ...
This Powerful Stokely Carmichael Portrait Never Made It to the Cover of Time Magazine. The artwork, by famed artist Jacob Lawrence, captured the turning point in the Civil Rights Movement. Wil...
Feb 8, 2023 · Stokely Carmichael, shown here in 1967, helped popularize the term "Black Power!" in 1966. AFP via Getty Images. Journalist Mark Whitaker says that much of what's happening in American race...
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Stokely Carmichael, 1941 - 1998. by Jacob A. Lawrence (1917 - 2000) 1966, Ink, gouache and charcoal on paper. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. © The Jacob & Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. NPG.91.145. Written and narrated by Clint Smith. Clint Smith is a staff writer at The Atlantic.
