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Feb 9, 2024 · On the night of June 16, 1966, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Chair Stokely Carmichael (Later Kwame Ture) proclaimed to the crowd, “We been saying freedom for six years and we ain’t got nothin’. What we got to start saying now is Black Power! We want Black Power.”
This collection, for the ear and the eye, highlights speeches by an eclectic mix of black leaders. Their impassioned, eloquent words continue to affect the ideas of a nation and the direction of history.
Stokely Carmichael, "Black Power," Speech Text - Voices of Democracy. STOKELY CARMICHAEL, “BLACK POWER” (29 OCTOBER 1966) [1] Thank you very much. It’s a privilege and an honor to be in the white intellectual ghetto of the West. (audience laughter) We wanted to do a couple of things before we started.
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In 1966 and 1967, Carmichael toured college campuses giving increasingly belligerent speeches. He coauthored a radical manifesto, Black Power, in which he argued that civil rights groups had lost their appeal among more militant young blacks.
Feb 8, 2023 · On Stokely Carmichael's approach to the civil rights movement. What Stokely realized, particularly after the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, was that just registering Blacks in...
