biography
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Carmichael, Stokely
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after 1969, also known as Kwame Ture
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| lived:
| (1941–98)
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| biography:
| Radical activist, born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. He emigrated to the USA in 1952, and was shocked by the racism he encountered. Involved in Civil Rights while attending Howard University (1960–4), he was elected leader of the Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Committee, and changed the group's focus from integration to black liberation. He popularized the phrase ‘black power’, and as a Black Panther came to symbolize black violence to many whites. He later favoured forging alliances with radical whites, which led to his resignation from the Panthers in 1968. He and his wife, Miriam Makeba, moved to Guinea in 1969, where he supported Pan-Africanism, and changed his name (after Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana and Sekou Toure of Guinea). |
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