Stokely Carmichael

(noun)

A Trinidadian-American black activist in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement who rose to prominence first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party.

Related Terms

  • insurrection
  • Black Panther Party
  • Black Power Movement

Examples of Stokely Carmichael in the following topics:

  • Black Power

    • One of the most famous users of the term was Stokely Carmichael, the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), who later changed his name to Kwame Ture.
    • In keeping with this philosophy, Carmichael expelled SNCC’s white members.
    • Long before Carmichael began to call for separatism, the Nation of Islam, founded in 1930, had advocated the same thing.
    • Stokely Carmichael later recalled that Malcolm X had provided an intellectual basis for Black Nationalism and given legitimacy to the use of violence in achieving the goals of Black Power.
    • When King was murdered in 1968, Stokely Carmichael stated that whites murdered the one person who would prevent rampant rioting, and that blacks would burn every major city to the ground.
  • The Emergence of the Civil Rights Movement

    • In Mississippi, Stokely Carmichael, one of SNCC's leaders, declared, "I'm not going to beg the white man for anything that I deserve, I'm going to take it.
  • Women of the Civil Rights Movement

    • She worked alongside some of the most famous civil rights leaders and mentored many emerging activists of the time, such as Diane Nash, Stokely Carmichael, Rosa Parks, and Bob Moses.
  • The Invasion of Grenada

    • Congressman Louis Stokes, D-Ohio, stated: "Not a single American child nor single American national was in any way placed in danger or placed in a hostage situation prior to the invasion. " The Congressional Black Caucus denounced the invasion and seven Democratic congressmen, led by Ted Weiss, introduced an unsuccessful resolution to impeach Ronald Reagan.
  • The Strategic Bombing of Europe

    • Few in Britain opposed this policy, but there were three notable opponents in Parliament, Bishop George Bell and the Labor MPs Richard Stokes and Alfred Salter.
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