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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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Film & TV
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.
Known for
- 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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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1941
- Active to
- 1998
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Listeners · Last.fm
- 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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Quotes
- “The death of Che Guevara places a responsibility on all revolutionaries of the World to redouble their decision to fight on to the final defeat of Imperialism. That is why in essence Che Guevara is not dead, his ideas are with us.”
- “The position of women in the [civil-rights] movement is prone.”
- “Programs do not come out of the minds of any one person or two people such as ourselves, but out of day-to-day work, out of interaction between organizers and the communities in which they work.”
- “Black Power means that black people see themselves as part of a new force, sometimes called the “Third World”; that we see our struggle as closely related to liberation struggles around the world. We must hook up with these struggles.”
- “The social effects of colonialism are to degrade and to dehumanize the subjected black man.”
- “Racist assumptions of white superiority have been so deeply engrained into the fiber of the society that they infuse the entire functioning of the national subconscious. They are taken for granted and frequently not even recognized.”
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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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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Stokely Carmichael HS Yearbook.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
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- Commons category
- Stokely Carmichael
- date of birth
- 1941-01-29
- date of death
- 1998-11-15
- birth name
- Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael
- name
- Kwame Ture
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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.