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History > USA > Civil rights > Black Power > 1960s-1980s
Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
Kwame Ture / Stokely Carmichael 1941-1998
From nonviolent volunteer to Black Panther: Stokely Carmichael in Oakland, Calif., 1968.
Photograph: Jeffrey Henson Scales HSP Archive
Evolution of an Activist NYT March 21, 2014
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/
From right, Floyd McKissick of the Congress of Racial Equality; the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; and Carmichael, leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, in 1966.
Photograph: Associated Press
He Cried Out ‘Black Power,’ Then Left for Africa Peniel E. Joseph on His Biography of Stokely Carmichael NYT MARCH 3, 2014
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/04/
Black Power movement Stokely Carmichael, Angela Davis, Eldridge Cleaver
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 Video Movie Trailer (2011) HD
mobilizes a treasure trove of 16mm material shot by Swedish filmmakers, after languishing in a basement of a TV station for 30 years, into an irresistible mosaic of images, music, and narration chronicling the evolution one of our nation's most indelible turning points, the Black Power movement.
Featuring candid interviews with the movement's most explosive revolutionary minds, including Angela Davis, Bobby Seale, Stokely Carmichael, and Kathleen Cleaver, the film explores the community, people and radical ideas of the movement.
Music by Questlove and Om'Mas Keith, and commentary from and modern voices including Erykah Badu, Harry Belafonte, Talib Kweli, and Melvin Van Peebles give the historical footage a fresh sound and make
THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-75 an exhilarating, unprecedented account of an American revolution. MOVIECLIPS Trailers YouTube > MOVIECLIPS Trailers 11 August 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFWHNpfjByQ
Related http://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/oct/08/black-power-mixtape-danny-glover
Kwame Ture / Stokely Carmichael 1941-1998
flamboyant civil rights leader known to most Americans as Stokely Carmichael
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(he) is best remembered for his use of the phrase ''black power,'' which in the mid-1960's ignited a white backlash and alarmed an older generation of civil rights leaders, including the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Though his active participation in the struggle for civil rights lasted barely a decade, he was a charismatic figure in a turbulent time, when real violence and rhetoric escalated on both sides of the color line.
Stokely Carmichael was inspired to participate in the civil rights movement by the bravery of those blacks and whites who protested segregated service with sit-ins at lunch counters in the South.
''When I first heard about the Negroes sitting in at lunch counters down South,'' he told Gordon Parks in Life magazine in 1967, ''I thought they were just a bunch of publicity hounds.
But one night when I saw those young kids on TV, getting back up on the lunch counter stools after being knocked off them, sugar in their eyes, ketchup in their hair -- well, something happened to me.
Suddenly I was burning.''
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As a SNCC [ Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ] field organizer in Lowndes Count in Alabama, where blacks were in the majority but politically powerless, he helped raise the number of registered black voters to 2,600 from a mere 70, or 300 more than the number of registered whites.
Displeased by the response of the established parties to the success of the registration drive, he organized the all-black Lowndes County Freedom Organization, which, to fulfill a state requirement that all parties have a logo, took a black panther as its symbol.
The panther was later adopted by the Black Panther Party.
The young Mr. Carmichael was radicalized by his experiences working in the segregated South, where peaceful protesters were beaten, brutalized and sometimes killed for seeking the ordinary rights of citizens.
He once recalled watching from his hotel room in a little Alabama town while nonviolent black demonstrators were beaten and shocked with cattle prods by the police.
Horrified, he said that he screamed and could not stop.
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