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| Alternate name(s): | Kwame Ture |
| Date of birth: | June 29, 1941 |
| Place of birth: |  Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago |
| Date of death: | November 15, 1998 (aged 57) |
| Place of death: |  Conakry, Guinea |
| Movement: | African-American Civil Rights Movement |
| Major organizations: | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Black Panther Party |
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Personal life
Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Carmichael moved to Harlem, New York City in 1952 at age eleven to rejoin his parents,[2] who had left him with his grandmother and two aunts to emigrate when he was two. Port of Spain is the Capital of Trinidad and Tobago and the country's third largest municipality after Chaguanas The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (ˈtrɪnɪdæd ən təˈbeɪgoʊ is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying northeast of the South American Harlem is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, long known as a major African American cultural and business center The City of New York He attended the elite[3]Tranquility School in Trinidad until his parents were able to send for him. [4]
His mother, Mabel F. Carmichael,[3] was a stewardess for a steamship line, and his father Adolphus was a carpenter who also worked as a taxi driver. [2] The reunited Carmichael family eventually left Harlem to live in Morris Park in the East Bronx, at that time an aging Jewish and Italian neighborhood. The East Bronx is that part of the New York City borough of The Bronx which lies east of the Bronx River; this roughly corresponds to the eastern half According to a 1967 interview he gave to LIFE Magazine, he was the only black member of the Morris Park Dukes, a youth gang involved in alcohol and petty theft. [2]
He attended the Bronx High School of Science, a specialized public high school for gifted students with a rigorous entrance exam, from which he graduated in 1960. The Bronx High School of Science (commonly called Bronx Science, Bronx Sci, or just Science, and officially known as H [5] His experience with the intellectual riches of the high school convinced him to drop his friends from the Dukes gang. [2]
In 1960, Carmichael went on to attend Howard University, a historically-black school in Washington, D.C., rejecting scholarship offers from several white universities. Howard University is a private, Coeducational Nonsectarian University located in Washington D Historically black colleges and universities ( HBCUs) are institutions of Higher education in the United States that were established before 1964 with the intention Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D At Howard his professors included Sterling Brown and Nathan Hare. His apartment on Euclid Street was a gathering place for his activist classmates. [3] He graduated with a degree in philosophy in 1964. [2]
He joined the Nonviolent Action Group (NAG), the Howard campus affiliate of SNCC. [1] He was inspired by the sit-ins to become more active in the Civil Rights Movement. In his first year at the university, he participated in the Freedom Rides of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and was frequently arrested, spending time in jail. Freedom Rider is also a song by Traffic and later Rascal Flatts Civil Rights activists called Freedom Riders rode in interstate buses In 1961, he served 49 days at the infamous Parchman Farm of Mississippi. Mississippi State Penitentiary, also known as Parchman Farm, is the oldest Prison and the only maximum security prison in the state of Mississippi, [2] He was arrested many times for his activism. He lost count of his many arrests, sometimes giving the estimate of at least 29 or 32, and telling the Washington Post in 1998 he believed the total number was fewer than 36. The Washington Post is the largest and most circulated Newspaper in Washington D [3]
Black Power
Carmichael participated in the Mississippi Freedom Summer, serving as a regional director for SNCC workers and helping to organize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP). 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In 1966 Carmichael journeyed to Lowndes County, Alabama, where he brought together the county's African-American residents to form the Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO). Lowndes County is a County of the US state of Alabama. Its name is in honor of William Lowndes a member of the United States Congress The organization was an effort to form a political party that would bring black residents of Lowndes — who were a majority in the county, but held no elected offices and were locked out of local politics — into power. The organization chose a black panther as its emblem, ostensibly in response to the Alabama Democratic Party's use of a White Rooster. A black panther is a black ( melanistic) color variant of one of several Species of larger cat which are often known by the term panther. Alabama (formally the State of Alabama;) is a State located in the southern region of the United States of America. The States' Rights Democratic Party (commonly known as the Dixiecrats) was a segregationist, socially conservative Political party In the press the LCFO became known as the "Black Panther Party" -- a moniker that would eventually provide inspiration for the more-well known Black Panther Party later founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, California. The Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a Marxist / Maoist African-American organization established Huey Percy Newton ( February 17, 1942 – August 22, 1989) was co-founder and leader of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense Robert George "Bobby" Seale (born October 22, 1936 in Dallas Texas) is an American Civil rights activist who along Oakland (ˈoʊklənd founded in 1852 is the eighth-largest city in the U [7] Carmichael often satirically made references to the media's one-sided renaming of the party:
| “ | In Lowndes County, we developed something called the Lowndes County Freedom Organization. It is a political party. The Alabama law says that if you have a Party you must have an emblem. We chose for the emblem a black panther, a beautiful black animal which symbolizes the strength and dignity of black people. . . Now there is a Party in Alabama called the Alabama Democratic Party. It is all white. It has as its emblem a white rooster and the words "white supremacy" for the write. Now the gentlemen of the Press, because they're advertisers, and because most of them are white, and because they're produced by that white institution, never called the Lowndes County Freedom Organization by its name, but rather they call it the Black Panther Party. Our question is, Why don't they call the Alabama Democratic Party the "White Cock Party"? It's fair to us. . . [8] | ” |
While he was in Lowndes, the number of registered black voters rose from 70 to 2,600 — 300 more than the number of registered white voters. [2]
Carmichael became chairman of SNCC later in 1966, taking over from John Lewis. John Robert Lewis (born February 21, 1940) is an American politician and was a leader in the American Civil Rights Movement. A few weeks after Carmichael took office, James Meredith was shot by a sniper during his solitary "March Against Fear". James H Meredith (born June 25, 1933) is an American civil rights movement figure On June 5, 1966, James Meredith started a solitary March Against Fear for 220 miles from Memphis Tennessee, to Jackson Mississippi Carmichael joined Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Floyd McKissick, Cleveland Sellers and others to continue Meredith's march. Martin Luther King Jr ( January 15, 1929 April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, Activist and prominent leader Floyd B McKissick (1922–1991 was born in Asheville North Carolina on March 9 1922 Cleveland Sellers Jr was born in 1944 in Denmark South Carolina to Cleveland and Pauline Sellers He was arrested once again during the march and, upon his release, he gave his first "Black Power" speech, using the phrase to urge black pride and socio-economic independence:
| “ | It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. Black Power is a racially based Political slogan and a name for various associated ideologies Black pride is a slogan used primarily in the United States to agitate for a black African-American racial identity and is closely aligned with Black It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations. | ” |
While Black Power was not a new concept, Carmichael's speech brought it into the spotlight and it became a rallying cry for young African Americans across the country. African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa Heavily influenced by the work of Frantz Fanon and his landmark book Wretched of the Earth, along with others such as Malcolm X, under Carmichael's leadership SNCC gradually became more radical and focused on Black Power as its core goal and ideology. Frantz Fanon ( July 20, 1925 – December 6, 1961) was a Psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary and author from The Wretched of the Earth ( French: Les Damnés de la Terre, first published 1961 is Frantz Fanon 's most famous work written during and This became most evident during the controversial Atlanta Project in 1966. SNCC, under the local leadership of Bill Ware, engaged in a voter drive to promote the candidacy of Julian Bond for the Georgia State Legislature in an Atlanta district. Horace Julian Bonds (born January 14 1940) is an American leader of the American Civil Rights Movement. The Georgia General Assembly is the state legislature of the U However, unlike previous SNCC activities — like the 1961 Freedom Rides or the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer — Ware excluded Northern white SNCC members from the drive. Freedom Rider is also a song by Traffic and later Rascal Flatts Civil Rights activists called Freedom Riders rode in interstate buses Freedom Summer (also known as the Mississippi Summer Project) was a campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register to vote as Initially, Carmichael opposed this move and voted it down, but he eventually changed his mind - expelling whites from prominent positions and focusing SNCC entirely on Black Power. [9]
Carmichael saw nonviolence as a tactic as opposed to a principle, which separated him from moderate civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr.. Nonviolence is a philosophy and strategy for social change that rejects the use of physical Violence. Martin Luther King Jr ( January 15, 1929 April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, Activist and prominent leader Carmichael became critical of civil rights leaders who simply called for the integration of African Americans into existing institutions of the middle class mainstream. Racial integration, or simply integration includes Desegregation (the process of ending systematic Racial segregation) The middle class, in colloquial usage consists of those who have some economic independence but not a great deal of social Influence or power. Carmichael believed that in order to genuinely integrate, Blacks first had to unite in solidarity and become self-reliant.
| “ | Now, several people have been upset because we’ve said that integration was irrelevant when initiated by blacks, and that in fact it was a subterfuge, an insidious subterfuge, for the maintenance of white supremacy. Now we maintain that in the past six years or so, this country has been feeding us a "thalidomide drug of integration," and that some Negroes have been walking down a dream street talking about sitting next to white people; and that that does not begin to solve the problem; that when we went to Mississippi we did not go to sit next to Ross Barnett; we did not go to sit next to Jim Clark; we went to get them out of our way; and that people ought to understand that; that we were never fighting for the right to integrate, we were fighting against white supremacy. Ross Robert Barnett ( January 22, 1898 November 6, 1987) was the Democratic governor of the U James Gardner Clark Jr ( September 17, 1922, Elba Coffee County Alabama - June 4 2007 of Selma Alabama, was the Sheriff of Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom. No man can given anybody his freedom. A man is born free. You may enslave a man after he is born free, and that is in fact what this country does. It enslaves black people after they’re born, so that the only acts that white people can do is to stop denying black people their freedom; that is, they must stop denying freedom. They never give it to anyone. [8] | ” |
According to Bearing the Cross (1986), David J. Garrow's Pulitzer Prize winning book about the Civil Rights movement, a few days after Carmichael used the "Black Power" slogan at the "Meredith March Against Fear," he reportedly told King, "Martin, I deliberately decided to raise this issue on the march in order to give it a national forum and force you to take a stand for Black Power. David J Garrow (born 1953 is an American historian and author of the book Bearing the Cross Martin Luther King Jr The Pulitzer Prize, ˈpʊlɨtsɚ PULL-it-sər is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in Newspaper journalism, The American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968 refers to the reform movements in the United States aimed at abolishing racial discrimination against African " King responded, "I have been used before. One more time won't hurt. "
In 1967, Carmichael stepped down as chairman of SNCC and was replaced by H. Rap Brown. Pan-Africanism is a Sociopolitical World view, and Philosophy, as well as a movement which seeks to unify both Native Africans and those of Pan-Africanism is a Sociopolitical World view, and Philosophy, as well as a movement which seeks to unify both Native Africans and those of An Afro-Latin American (also Afro-Latino) is a Latin American person of at least partial Black African ancestry the term may also refer to historical African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa Kwanzaa is a week-long holiday celebrated primarily in the United States, honoring African-American heritage See Colony and Colonization for examples of colonialism which do not refer to Western colonialism The word Maafa (also known as the African Holocaust or Holocaust of Enslavement) is derived from a Swahili word meaning disaster terrible occurrence or The term black people usually refers to a racial group of Humans with dark Skin color, but the term has also been used to categorise a number of diverse African Philosophy is a disputed term used in different ways by different Philosophers. Black nationalism (BN advocates a racial definition (or redefinition of black national identity as opposed to Multiculturalism. Black orientalism is a terminology that is used for an intellectual and cultural movement within primarily African American circles which while similar to the general movement Afrocentrism or Afrocentricity is a World view that emphasizes the importance of African people in culture philosophy and history This is a list of articles that are related to African and black people The Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou ( Festival panafricain du cinéma et de la télévision de Ouagadougou or FESPACO) is the largest African African art constitutes one of the most diverse legacies on earth Established in 1992 The Pan African Film Festival (PAFF is a non-profit corporation dedicated to the promotion of cultural and racial tolerance and understanding through the exhibition of film George Padmore (1902&ndash September 23, 1959) born Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse, was a Trinidadian who became a leading Pan-Africanist Walter Rodney ( March 23, 1942 &ndash June 13, 1980) was a prominent Guyanese historian and political figure Patrice Émery Lumumba ( 2 July, 1925 – 17 January, 1961) was an African anti-colonial leader and the first legally elected Prime Captain Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara ( December 21, 1949 – October 15, 1987) was the leader of Burkina Faso (formerly Frantz Fanon ( July 20, 1925 – December 6, 1961) was a Psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary and author from Ahmed Sékou Touré (var Ahmen Seku Ture) (January 9 1922--March 26 1984 was an African political leader and president of the Republic of Guinea Kwame Nkrumah ( September 21, 1909 - April 27, 1972) was an influential 20th century advocate of Pan-Africanism, and the leader of Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr, National Hero of Jamaica (17 August 1887 10 June 1940 was a Publisher, Journalist, Entrepreneur, Black nationalist Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little; May 19 1925 February 21 1965 also known as El-Hajj Malik El- Shabazz, was an African American William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (duːˈbɔɪz ( February 23, 1868 August 27, 1963) was an American Civil rights activist Cyril Lionel Robert James ( 4 January 1901 &ndash 19 May 1989) was an Afro- Trinidadian Journalist Cheikh Anta Diop ( 29 December, 1923 &ndash 7 February, 1986) was a Senegalese Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (ˈuɰo rafaˈel ˈtʃaβ̞es ˈfɾias (born July 28 1954 is the current President of Venezuela. Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (Born October 4, 1943, as Hubert Gerold Brown) also known as H The SNCC, which was a collective and, in keeping with the spirit of the times, worked by group consensus rather than hierarchically, was displeased with Carmichael's celebrity status. SNCC leaders had begun to refer to him as "Stokely Starmichael" and criticize his habit of making policy announcements independently, before achieving internal agreement, and gave him a formal letter of expulsion in 1967. [3]
After his time with the SNCC, Carmichael attempted to clarify his politics by writing the book Black Power (1967) with Charles V. Hamilton and became a strong critic of the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, or the Vietnam Conflict, occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia During this period he traveled and lectured extensively throughout the world; visiting Guinea, North Vietnam, China, and Cuba. Guinea, officially Republic of Guinea (pronounced /ˈgɪni/ République de Guinée is a country in West Africa, formerly known as French Guinea The Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN or less commonly Vietnamese Democratic Republic (Việt Nam Dân Chủ Cộng Hòa was a Country on the northern half of Vietnam Talk People's Republic of China) PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA ARTICLE GUIDELINES The Republic of Cuba (ˈkjuːbə or) consists of the island of Cuba (the largest and second-most populous island of the Greater Antilles) Isla de la As a part of the short-lived and ultimately unsuccessful 1968 attempt at merging the Black Panthers and SNCC, Carmichael was made an honorary prime minister of the Black Panthers. [10] After his expulsion from the SNCC, Carmichael became more clearly identified with the Black Panther Party. [3]
Self-imposed exile
However, Carmichael soon began to distance himself from the Panthers. In 1969, he and his then-wife, the South African singer Miriam Makeba, moved to Guinea-Conakry where he became an aide to Guinean prime minister Ahmed Sékou Touré and the student of exiled Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah. The Republic of South Africa (also known by other official names) is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa Miriam Makeba (b March 4, 1932) is a Grammy Award-winning South African singer also known as Mama Afrika. Guinea, officially Republic of Guinea (pronounced /ˈgɪni/ République de Guinée is a country in West Africa, formerly known as French Guinea This article is about the government position For other uses see Prime Minister (disambiguation. Ahmed Sékou Touré (var Ahmen Seku Ture) (January 9 1922--March 26 1984 was an African political leader and president of the Republic of Guinea The Republic of Ghana is a country in West Africa. It borders Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast to the west Burkina Faso to the north Togo to the Kwame Nkrumah ( September 21, 1909 - April 27, 1972) was an influential 20th century advocate of Pan-Africanism, and the leader of [5] Makeba was appointed Guinea's official delegate to the United Nations. The United Nations ( UN) is an International organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in International law, International security [11] Three months after his arrival in Africa, in July of 1969, he published a formal rejection of the Black Panthers, condemning the Panthers for not being separatist enough and their "dogmatic party line favoring alliances with white radicals". Black separatism is a movement to create separate institutions for Black people in societies historically dominated by whites particularly the United States. [2]
It was at this stage in his life that Carmichael changed his name to Kwame Ture to honor the African leaders Nkrumah and Touré who had become his patrons. At the end of his life, friends still referred to him interchangeably by both names, "and he doesn't seem to mind. "[3]
Carmichael remained in Guinea after separation from the Black Panther Party. He continued to travel, write, and speak out in support of international leftist movements and in 1971 collected his work in a second book Stokely Speaks: Black Power Back to Pan-Africanism. This book expounds an explicitly socialist, Pan-African vision, which he seemingly retained for the rest of his life. Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the Means of production and distribution Pan-Africanism is a Sociopolitical World view, and Philosophy, as well as a movement which seeks to unify both Native Africans and those of From the late 1970's until the day he died, he answered his phone by announcing "Ready for the revolution!"[2]
While in Guinea, he was arrested one more time. Two years after Touré's death in 1984, the military regime which took his place arrested Carmichael and jailed him for three days on suspicion of attempting to overthrow the government. Lansana Conté (born ca 1934 has been the President of Guinea since 3 April 1984. Despite common knowledge that President Touré engaged in torture of his political opponents, Carmichael had never criticized his namesake. [2]
Carmichael and Makeba separated in 1973. After they divorced, he entered a second marriage with Marlyatou Barry, a Guinean doctor whom he also divorced. By 1998, his second wife and their son, Bokar, born in 1982, were living in Arlington, Virginia. Relying on a statement from the All-African Peoples Revolutionary Party, his 1998 obituary in the New York Times referenced two sons, three sisters, and his mother as survivors but without further details. The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP is a Socialist group founded by Dr [2]
Death and legacy
After two years of treatment at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, he died of prostate cancer at the age of 57 in Conakry, Guinea. Conakry or Konakry ( Malinké: Kɔnakiri) is the Capital and largest city of Guinea. Guinea, officially Republic of Guinea (pronounced /ˈgɪni/ République de Guinée is a country in West Africa, formerly known as French Guinea He claimed that his cancer "was given to me by forces of American imperialism and others who conspired with them. "[2] He claimed that the FBI had introduced the cancer to his body as an attempt at assassination. AssassiNation is the sixth album by Krisiun, released in 2006 on Century Media. [12] After his diagnosis in 1996, benefits were held in Denver; New York; Atlanta;[4] and Washington, D. A benefit concert is a Concert, show or gala featuring musicians comedians or other performers that is held for a charitable purpose often directed at a specific C. ,[3] to help defray his medical expenses; and the government of Trinidad and Tobago, where he was born, awarded him a grant of $1,000 a month for the same purpose. The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (ˈtrɪnɪdæd ən təˈbeɪgoʊ is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying northeast of the South American [4]
In 2007, the publication of previously secret Central Intelligence Agency documents revealed that Carmichael had been tracked by the CIA as part of their surveillance of black activists abroad, which began in 1968 and continued for years. near as long as it used to be several months ago It has been actively summarized and split into sub-articles and there is a dynamic talk page discussion of all [13]
In a final interview given to the Washington Post, he spoke with contempt for the economic and electoral progress made during the past thirty years. The Washington Post is the largest and most circulated Newspaper in Washington D He acknowledged that blacks had won election to major mayorships, but stated that the power of mayoralty had been diminished and that such progress was essentially meaningless. Stokely Carmichael is credited with coining the phrase "institutional racism", which is defined as a form of racism that occurs in institutions such as public bodies and corporations, including universities. Institutional Racism (or structural racism or systemic racism) refers to a form of Racism which occurs specifically in institutions such as public In the late 1960s Carmichael defined "institutional racism" as "the collective failure of an organization to provide an appropriate and professional service to people because of their color, culture or ethnic origin". [14]
Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson gave a speech celebrating Ture's life, stating: "He was one of our generation who was determined to give his life to transforming America and Africa. Jesse Louis Jackson Sr (born October 8 1941 is an American Civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was committed to ending racial apartheid in our country. He helped to bring those walls down". [15]
See also
References
- ^ a b Stokely Carmichael, King Encyclopedia, The Martin Luther King, Jr. The American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968 refers to the reform movements in the United States aimed at abolishing racial discrimination against African This is a timeline of the African-American Civil Rights Movement. Research and Education Institute, Stanford University. Accessed 20 November 2006.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Stokely Carmichael, Rights Leader Who Coined 'Black Power,' Dies at 57" November 16, 1998, New York Times. Accessed March 27, 2008.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "The Undying Revolutionary: As Stokely Carmichael, He Fought for interracial relationships. Now Kwame Ture's Fighting For His Life," by Paula Spahn, April 8, 1998, Washington Post p. The Washington Post is the largest and most circulated Newspaper in Washington D D 1. Accessed via online cache June 27, 2007.
- ^ a b c "Stokely Carmichael Biography" Accessed June 27, 2007.
- ^ a b [1], NY Times "Ready for Revolution" Book review. Accessed 17 March 2007.
- ^ [2], Britannica on "Black Power". Accessed 24 February 2007.
- ^ [3], H. K. Yuen Social Movement Archive. Accessed 24 February 2007.
- ^ a b [4], Stokely Carmichael, "Black Power" speech. Accessed 17 March 2007.
- ^ Atlanta in the Civil Rights Movement
- ^ [5], Charlie Cobb, From Stokely Carmichael to Kwame Ture. Accessed 17 March 2007.
- ^ "Miriam Makeba" undated biography at Answers. Com. Accessed June 27, 2007.
- ^ Statement of Kwame Ture undated between 1996 diagnosis and 1998 death. Accessed June 27, 2007.
- ^ "Some Examples of CIA Misconduct", June 26, 2007 Associated Press report published in the Washington Post. The Washington Post is the largest and most circulated Newspaper in Washington D AP report also published same date here in the New York Times. Accessed June 27, 2007.
- ^ Richard W. Race, Analyzing ethnic education policy-making in England and Wales (PDF), Sheffield Online Papers in Social Research, University of Sheffield, p. 12. Accessed 20 June 2006.
- ^ Black Panther Leader Dies, BBC, November 16, 1998. Accessed 20 June 2006.
Further reading
- Carmichael, Stokely, et al. Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture). Scribner 2005, 848 pages. ISBN 0-684-85004-4.
- Carmichael, Stokely, et al. Black Power: The Politics of Liberation. Vintage; Reissue edition 1992, 256 pages. ISBN 0-679-74313-8.
- Carmichael, Stokely, et al. Stokely Speaks: Black Power Back to Pan-Africanism. Random House 1971, 292 pages. ISBN 0-394-46879-1.
External links
- Stokely Carmichael
- Stokely Carmichael Page. Stokely Carmichael spoke to an enthusiastic crowd at Garfield High School in Seattle, Washington on April 19, 1967. Audio and slideshow. Retrieved May 3, 2005.
- Stokely Carmichael FBI FOIA
- A final interview with Kwame Ture in the Washington Post published April 8, 1998
- A script and mp3 audio of Stokely Carmichael's Black Power Speech
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