Stokely Carmichael

Stokely Carmichael (aka Kwame Ture; June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998) was a Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. He rose to prominence first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, pronounced "snick") and later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party. Initially an integrationist, Carmichael later became affiliated with black nationalist and Pan-Africanist movements. He popularized the term "Black Power".

Read more about Stokely Carmichael:  Early Life and Education, Freedom Rides, SNCC, Politics After SNCC, Surveillance By The FBI, Self-imposed Exile, Death and Legacy

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