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Stokely Carmichael

1941-1998 GN, Port of Spain
Spoken Word
A.k.a. Kwame Toure

Stokely Carmichael (June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998), also known as Kwame Touré, was a Trinidadian-American revolutionary active in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and later, the global Pan-African movement. Growing up in the United States from the age of eleven, he graduated from Howard University. He rose to prominence in the civil rights and Black Power movements, first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party, and finally as a leader of the All-African Peoples Revolutionary Party.