4th Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
In office May 1966 – June 1967
Preceded by
John Lewis
Succeeded by
H. Rap Brown
Personal details
Born
Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael
(1941-06-29)June 29, 1941 Port of Spain, British Trinidad and Tobago
Died
November 15, 1998(1998-11-15) (aged 57) Conakry, Guinea
Spouse(s)
Miriam Makeba
(m. 1968; div. 1973)
Marlyatou Barry (divorced)
Children
2
Education
Howard University (BA)
Kwame Ture (/ˈkwɑːmeɪˈtʊəreɪ/; born Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael; June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998) was an American organizer 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 (BPP), 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 Convention failed to recognize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party as official delegates from the state. Carmichael eventually decided to develop independent all-black political organizations, such as the Lowndes County Freedom Organization and, for a time, the national Black Panther Party. Inspired by Malcolm X's example, he articulated a philosophy of black power, and popularized it both by provocative speeches and more sober writings. Carmichael became one of the most popular and controversial Black leaders of the late 1960s. J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, secretly identified Carmichael as the man most likely to succeed Malcolm X as America's "black messiah".[2] The FBI targeted him for counterintelligence activity through its COINTELPRO program,[2] so Carmichael moved to Africa in 1968. He reestablished himself in Ghana, and then Guinea by 1969.[3] There, he adopted the name Kwame Ture, and began campaigning internationally for revolutionary socialist pan-Africanism. Ture died of prostate cancer in 1998 at the age of 57.
^"Freedom Riders | Meet the Players: Movement Leaders | Stokely Carmichael" biography, American Experience, PBS, Retrieved April 8, 2011.
^ abCite error: The named reference Warden76 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^See Asante, Molefi K.; Ama Mazama. Encyclopedia of Black Studies. pp. 78–80.
and 22 Related for: Stokely Carmichael information
Kwame Ture (/ˈkwɑːmeɪ ˈtʊəreɪ/; born Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael; June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998) was an American organizer in the civil...
of the term "black power" as a political and racial slogan was by StokelyCarmichael (later known as Kwame Ture) and Willie Ricks (later known as Mukasa...
and StokelyCarmichael for suppression. Carmichael, Stokely, and Michael Thelwell. Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of StokelyCarmichael (Kwame...
Federal Anti-Riot Act Rap Brown Act Rap Brown Law Civil Obedience Act StokelyCarmichael Act Enacted by the 90th United States Congress Effective April 11...
haven't been using the expression for several months." In his 1967, StokelyCarmichael and political scientist Charles V. Hamilton wrote Black Power: The...
protect the community from the racist cops." On October 29, 1966, StokelyCarmichael – a leader of SNCC – championed the call for "Black Power" and came...
He made his Broadway acting debut portraying civil rights activist StokelyCarmichael in the play All the Way (2013). Harper's other notable roles on stage...
Lewis served as SNCC chairman until 1966, when he was replaced by StokelyCarmichael. In 1966, Lewis moved to New York City to take a job as the associate...
ISBN 1-56025-935-3. OCLC 74175340. Carmichael, Stokely; Thelwell, Michael (2003). Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of StokelyCarmichael (Kwame Ture). Simon...
use of the term "black power" as a social and racial slogan was by StokelyCarmichael (later known as Kwame Ture) and Willie Ricks (later known as Mukasa...
Lindsay Hugh Sullivan Kingsley Amis Peggy Ashcroft James Cameron StokelyCarmichael Tom Driberg Paul Scofield Patrick Wymark Rest of cast listed alphabetically:...
Stokely is a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: StokelyCarmichael (1941–1998), American civil rights activist Samuel Stokely...
ISBN 9780757316036. Carmichael, Stokely; Thelwell, Michael (2003). Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of StokelyCarmichael (Kwame Ture). New...
America". NPR.org. NPR. George Lincoln Rockwell, StokelyCarmichael. "George Lincoln Rockwell vs StokelyCarmichael" – via Internet Archive. Perry, Barbara, Hate...
buses full of union supporters. During the latter days of the march, StokelyCarmichael, the new chairman of SNCC, introduced the idea of Black Power to a...
local rally where national civil rights leader Kwame Ture (a.k.a. StokelyCarmichael) is speaking. At the rally, Stallworth meets Patrice Dumas, president...
under the leadership of StokelyCarmichael. On March 23, 1965, as the march from Selma to Montgomery took place, Carmichael and some in SNCC who were...
was first coined in 1967 by StokelyCarmichael and Charles V. Hamilton in Black Power: The Politics of Liberation. Carmichael and Hamilton wrote that while...
conference included the Trinidadian-American StokelyCarmichael and the British Michael X. Although moved by Carmichael's rhetoric, Davis was reportedly disappointed...
because of their race. These protests continued until the fall of 1944. StokelyCarmichael, also known as Kwame Toure, a student in the Department of Philosophy...
attention to that of Jackson, a local African American. SNCC organizer StokelyCarmichael argued that "the movement itself is playing into the hands of racism...
Washington and Redd Foxx. Martin Luther King Jr., Jesse Jackson, and StokelyCarmichael often ate together at the Chili Bowl. During the 1968 Washington,...
Global Information