-Stokley Carmicheal went to Bronx High School and went to Black Howard University college.
-He was all about black power.
-He was born in June 29, 1941
-He died at November 15 19998
-Stokley Carmicheal was a civil rights activist.
-He joined many organization including the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
-This organization made protest and help make black people registered to vote.
-Another organization which were called the "freedom riders" made protest in the bus. Most of them were mostly bombed/burned and the poeple inside were beaten and put o jail. Just like Stokely who was jailed for 49 days.
-During a march in 1966 with Martin Luther King (Freedom March) Stokley was participated in the march. He saw that the march was some blacks and whites while Carmicheal wanted it to be only blacks.
-He is known for going all over New York and making blacks registered to vote.
-"Black Power" was a inspirational to black people and was in media, since it began.
-The book came out with the help of Charles V. Hamilton.
-In 1968 he married an African American singer Miriam Makeba.
-He was nominated to be the leader on the SNCC but he declined.
-He was an anti-white person.
-He recieved a bachelors degree in Philosophy.
-He later died in 1998 from prostate cancer.
Some of his quotes:
~"A man is born free"
~"Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it."
~"I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived. "
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