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Carmichael, Stokely (Kwame Ture)
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Carmichael, Stokely
Source: Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century
Word Count: 1197 Includes: Bibliography(b. 29 June 1941; d. 15 November 1998), activist and writer who popularized the “Black Power” slogan in the 1960s. A native of Trinidad, Carmichael, later known as Kwame Ture, immigrated to the United States at the age of eleven to join his parents, who had migrated several years earlier. Even as a child he demonstrated an interest in politics, and the socialist activist Bayard Rustin was one of his earliest role models.A gifted student, Carmichael attended the Bronx High School of Science, graduating in 1960. Although he was offered admission to a number of colleges and universities, his growing racial consciousness led him to the historically black Howard University in Washington, D.C. He received his bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1964.While a student, he became involved in the civil rights ...
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Source: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition
Word Count: 6011941–1998
Activist and writer who inaugurated the Black Power Movement of the 1960s. Although Stokely Carmichael was not the first to use the phrase “Black Power,” he made it famous. Critical of Martin Luther King Jr.'s peaceful approach, Carmichael, as chairperson of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s, advanced a militant stand on civil rights.Born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, Carmichael moved with his family to a mostly white neighborhood in the Bronx, New York, when he was eleven. He graduated from Bronx High School of Science in 1960 and, four years later, from Howard University in Washington, D.C., with a bachelor's degree in philosophy.While at Howard, Carmichael became involved in civil rights protests. He participated in demonstrations staged by the Congress ...
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Source: African American National Biography
Word Count: 1905 Includes: Further Reading | Obituary:(29 June 1941–15 Nov. 1998), civil rights leader, later known as Kwame Ture, was born Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, British West Indies, the son of Adolphus Carmichael, a carpenter, and Mabel (also listed as May) Charles Carmichael, a steamship line stewardess and domestic worker. When he was two, his parents immigrated to the United States with two of their daughters. He was raised by two aunts and a grandmother and attended British schools in Trinidad, where he was exposed to a colonial view of race that he was later to recall with anger. He followed his parents to Harlem at the age of eleven and the next year moved with them to a relatively prosperous neighborhood in the Bronx, where he became the only African American member of the Morris Park Dukes, a neighborhood gang. But although he participated in the street ...
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