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Stokely Carmichael

June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998
Raised in the Bronx, New York

Stokely Carmichael canvassing in Lowndes County, Alabama, undated, crmvet.org

Because of his call for “Black Power” during the June 1966 Meredith March Against Fear in Mississippi, Stokely Carmichael is often remembered as confrontational in style and far removed from nonviolence. Yet he credited nonviolent activism as leading him and other young Black people like himself into the Movement. “It gave our generation–particularly in the South–the means by which to confront and entrenched and violent racism. It offered a way for a large number of [African Americans] to join the struggle. Nothing passive in that.”

Above all else, Stokely Carmichael was a grassroots organizer.

He was born in Trinidad but came to the United States as a child and grew up in in Harlem. When he started at Howard University, he believed that civil rights was something that adults did. The sit-ins convinced him that young people could and should do something about the violence and racism that plagued the United Stat

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Stokely Carmichael

American activist (1941–1998)

Kwame Ture (; born Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael; June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998) was an American activist who played a major role in the civil rights movement in the United States and the global pan-African movement. Born in Trinidad in the Caribbean, he grew up in the United States from the age of 11 and became an activist while attending the Bronx High School of Science. He was a key leader in the development of the Black Power movement, first while leading the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), then as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party, and last as a leader of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP).^[1]

Carmichael was one of the original SNCC freedom riders of 1961 under Diane Nash's leadership. He became a major voting rights activist in Mississippi and Alabama after being mentored by Ella Baker and Bob Moses. Like most young people in the SNCC, he became disillusioned with the two-party system after the 1964 Democratic National C

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Stokely Carmichael [Kwame Ture] (June 29, 1941- November 15, 1998)

Stokely Carmichael was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago and grew up in New York City. He attended Howard University, where he became involved with student protest groups, including the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) which organized the Freedom Rides in 1961. Carmichael participated in the Freedom Rides in an attempt to integrate a train and cafeteria in Jackson, Mississippi.

During Freedom Summer, Stokely Carmichael became a full time organizer for SNCC in Mississippi. He also worked closely with Gloria Richardson while she led the Cambridge Movement in Maryland. In 1965, Carmichael worked with the Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO) in Alabama to support African American political candidates and register previously disenfranchised voters. The LCFO believed in armed self-defense and black political power. The following year, Carmichael succeeded John Lewis as the chairman of SNCC, and guided the organization towards a more mi