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Stokely Carmichael

American activist (1941-1998)

Person · Open Library

Born: 29 June 1941
Died: 15 November 1998
Works: 6

Top works

Black Power
Thoughts of the young radicals
Dialectics of liberation
Stokely speaks
Ready for revolution

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Acting · Port of Spain, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago

Kwame Ture was a prominent organizer in the civil rights movement in the United States and the global Pan-African movement. Born in Trinidad, he grew up in the United States from the age of 11 and became an activist while attending the Bronx High School of Science.

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Hollywood Black — Self (archive footage)2024
South to Black Power — Self2023
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) — Self - Activist (archive footage)2021
70 Years of Youth Revolt — Self (archive footage)2020
Helter Skelter: An American Myth — Self (archive footage)2020
King in the Wilderness — Self (archive footage)2018
Algiers, the Mecca of Revolutionaries (1962-1974) — Self2016
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 — Self (archive footage)2011
Mama Africa — Self (archive footage)2011
COINTELPRO 101 — Self (archive footage)2010

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Type: Person
Country: US
Active from: 1899-11-22
Active to: 1981-12-27

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Listeners: 895
Total plays: 2,520

Kwame Ture (June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998), also known as Stokely Carmichael, 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 t

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Key facts

Preceded by: John Lewis
Succeeded by: H. Rap Brown
Born: Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael , ( 1941-06-29 ) June 29, 1941, Port of Spain , Trinidad and Tobago
Died: November 15, 1998 (1998-11-15) (aged 57), Conakry , Guinea
Spouse s: Miriam Makeba ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1968 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1973 ) , Marlyatou Barry (divorced)
Education: Howard University ( BA )

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Key dates

Born: 29 January 1941
Died: 15 November 1998

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Kwame
Family name: Carmichael
Named after: Ahmed Sékou Touré
Gender: male
Citizenship: Guinea
Place of birth: Port of Spain
Place of death: Conakry
Spouse: Miriam Makeba
Occupation: revolutionary

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Kwame Ture (/ˈkwɑːmeɪ ˈtʊəreɪ/ KWAH-may TOOR-ay; born Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael; June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998) was a Trinidadian and 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 and Tobago, he moved to the United States at age 11 and became an activist while attending the Bronx High School of Science. Ture 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 as a leader of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP).

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. The author Richard Wright is credited with coining the phrase in his 1954 book Black Power.