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Profile Information
Name: Stokely Carmichael Hometown: Port of Spain, Trinidad Date of Birth: June 29, 1941 Job Name/Title/Employer: Prime Minister of the Black Panthers Education: University of Toronto Mississauga, Bronx High School of Science, and Howard University

Friends
Charles V. Hamilton Miriam Makeba John Lewis James Meredith Floyd McKissick

About Me
Hi I am Stokely Carmichael. I was born on June 29, 1941 in Port of Spain Trinidad. I am an only child of Mabel and Adolphus. I lived in Trinidad until I was eleven, then I moved to America to join my mother and father. When I moved to the U.S I lived in New York and stayed there until I graduated from college. I quickly became involved in civil rights with groups like the SNCC and such. At first I believed in non-violence, but then I had to change my ways to get our rights.

Soon after I entered Howard University I became involved with the SNCC, they trained me in non-violent techniques. Soon after that I joined the Freedom Riders where I sat next to white people onto a bus to the Deep South to test bus segregation. When we got down there I was arrested and jailed for 49 days. After that I also worked on the project Freedom Summer, and in 1966 I became a chairman of the SNCC. I then got sick of the slow pace of our rights and changed my ways.

I decided to form the Black Panther Party. It was a more extreme party that used violence to help sway people's opinons in our favor. Then in1967 I left the U.S to meet with revolutionary leaders in other countries. Then when I came back in 1969 I quit the Black Panther party and left the U.S. I moved to Conarke, Ghana and changed my name to Kwame Toure. I moved there to help with pan- Africanism. I know live there and plan on staying there the rest of my life.

Wall Posts

 * Today is June 5, 1966, my friend James Meredith started a march against racism from Memphis to Jackson, and was shot by a sniper, Martin Luther King, Floyd McCkissick, and myself finished the march in his name.


 * Today is June 16, 1966, today I gave my Black Power speech right after I was released from jail in which I called for "black people in the country to unite, to recognize their heritage, and to build a sense of community."


 * Today is August 5, 1967, Charles Hamilton's and my book, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America, was published today and I am very excited to see how many copies are sold


 * The year is 1971, my book is being published soon called Stokely Speaks: Black Power Back to Pan-Africanism

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