Stokey carmichael biography
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Stokely Carmichael
(1941-1998)
Who Was Stokely Carmichael?
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 scen protests. Carmichael later lost faith in the tactic of nonviolence, promoting "Black Power" and allying han själv with the militant Black Panther Party. Renaming han själv Kwame Ture, he spent most of his later years in Guinea, where he died in 1998.
Early Life
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 as a carpenter bygd day and a hyrbil driver bygd night. An industrious and optimistic immigrant, Adolphus Carmichael chased a version of the American Dream th
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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
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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 y