Stokely+Carmichael

=Stokely Carmichael= =1941-1988= Carmicheal was born on June 22nd, 1941, in Trinidad, Spain (YourDictionary.com). Carmicheal left Spain when he was eleven and attended Howard University in 1960, when he was 19 (after rejecting several offers from white universities). He was a part of a number of Black Rights protests and protest groups such as the Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee (SNCC), Freedom Rides and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). In 1965 he became chariman of the SNCC after the unexpected death of his collegue, and during this year he joined Martin Luther King, Jr. and his protesting efforts, in cluding the now famous 'Freedom March'. However, as he witnessed the violence that black non-violent protestors suffered, he slowly turned away from the non-violent approach and advocated violence if necessary for defence, and the principle of 'Black Power'. Many people in America responded negatively to this, as they thought that the principle had the potential to start a 'race war' in the United States.



Freedom March. As a SNCC field organizer in Alabama, where the African Americans were the majority of the population but were politically powerless, Carmichael helped to raise the number of registered black voters from approximately 70 to 2,600 people (which is 300 more than the number of registered white voters). Carmichael was arrested so often that he lost count after 32 arrests. When he was arrested in Greenwood (he was addressing a crowd of 3000, 1966) his frustration was obvious to the people.

After his release, he made a speech in which he said "This is the 27th time. We've been saying 'Freedom' for six years. What we are going to start saying now is 'Black Power!'"

Kaufman, M (November 16, 1998) "//Stokely Carmichael, Rights Leader Who Coined 'Black Power,' Dies at 57"// [Online]. Available: [] [Accessed: 9 June 2009]

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Encyclopedia of World Biography. "Biography of Stokely Carmichael"