![]() ![]() ![]() Historian Peniel Joseph's new biography of Carmichael, titled Stokely: A Life, shows that for a time, the Trinidad-born New Yorker was everywhere that counted in the South, a real-life Zelig: "He is an organizer who had his hand in every major demonstration and event that occurs between 1960-1965." ![]() The tall, handsome philosophy major from Howard University spent summers in the South, working with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, known as SNCC, to get African-Americans in Alabama and Mississippi registered to vote in the face of tremendous, often violent resistance from segregationists. That year, his use of the phrase "black power" at a rally in Mississippi grabbed the nation's attention.īefore he became famous - and infamous - for calling on black power for black people, Stokely Carmichael was better known as a rising young community organizer in the civil rights movement. Stokely Carmichael, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, speaks to reporters in Atlanta in May 1966. ![]()
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