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The Cut
April 19, 2018
... Power group known as “Black Student Union” in April, 1968. The group's frustration with broken promises for racial equality turned to activism in the year that followed political activist Stokely Carmichael's speeches delivered at the University of Washington and Garfield High School in the spring of 1967.
Smithsonian
April 17, 2018
I was raised in the housing projects of New Orleans and San Francisco, and my parents were very strong community advocates. I also witnessed the Black Panther Party emerge in Oakland in 1966. Stokely Carmichael's call for Black Power focused on the need to transform our communities first in order to get ourselves outÃâà...
CityLab
April 10, 2018
One of a handful of black newsmen working in the city's media at the time, White dashed to 14th and U Streets—the commercial and cultural heart of black Washington—and into the offices of King's Poor People's Campaign, where he found Stokely Carmichael, former leader of the Student NonviolentÃâà...
The Atlantic
April 9, 2018
Racial militants might have tolerated that paltry number of seats had they been occupied by firebrands such as Stokely Carmichael, who popularized the term black power, or H. Rap Brown, who routinely railed against “the honkies.” These brazen embodiments of the new generation of civil-rights activism would haveÃâà...
The Tennessean
April 8, 2018
Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Stokely Carmichael spoke at Vanderbilt IMPACT in 1967 and 1968. Michael Schwab/USA TODAY NETWORK - Tennessee. by Taboola by Taboola. AD CONTENT. Compareacards.com By LendingTree Ãâ÷ Best Credit Cards For Balance Transfers inÃâà...
Jackson Free Press
April 5, 2018
It was during that march route that Stokely Carmichael was thrown in jail for trying to set up a tent for marchers in the Delta. McLaurin said they helped get Carmichael out of jail; they had to set up the tent in a park in the middle of the black Delta community. #McLaurin recalled Carmichael stepping up to theÃâà...
Daily Free Press (blog)
April 5, 2018
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Stokely Carmichael in Jackson, Mississippi at the end of the Meredith March. The new HBO documentary “King in the Wilderness” premiered Monday. PHOTO COURTESY BOB FITCH, STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES/HBO. In his famous speech “I've Been to theÃâà...
CityLab
April 4, 2018
By that time, Stokely Carmichael had joined the crowd, and he quickly assumed leadership. A graduate of Howard University, he happened to be in Washington during a series of speaking engagements around the country. He was no longer the SNCC national chairman, but when he heard about King'sÃâà...
Boston Review
March 30, 2018
For the event, Baldwin read aloud from his defense of the Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael, an essay that had recently also been published in the Manchester Guardian. And on March 16, along with Marlon Brando, Baldwin introduced King at a fundraiser at Anaheim's Disneyland Hotel. In Baldwin'sÃâà...
The Atlantic
March 27, 2018
He and the reverend were alluding to a turning point in the late 1960s, when Stokely Carmichael, the young leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, issued a philosophical—and generational—challenge to Martin Luther King Jr.'s belief in nonviolence as a tactic and in racial integration as the paramountÃâà...
