![]() ![]() In 1964, Carmichael graduated from Howard and, along with other young SNCC activists, became increasingly frustrated with the movement’s reliance on white liberals and its advocacy of non-violent reform, especially in the wake of the Democratic Party’s betrayal of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. ![]() ![]() He participated in SNCC sit-ins and Freedom Rides throughout the Deep South, and when SNCC turned its attention to voter registration, Carmichael led the campaign that established the Lowndes County Freedom Organization, a symbolic forerunner to the Black Panther Party. He attended Howard University and joined the newly formed Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC) in 1960. He showed promise as a young student and was accepted into the mostly white Bronx High School of Science in 1956. ![]() His family moved to New York City, New York when he was eleven. A civil rights leader, antiwar activist, and Pan-African revolutionary, Stokely Carmichael is best known for popularizing the slogan “ Black Power,” which in the mid-1960s galvanized a movement toward more militant and separatist assertions of black identity, nationalism, and empowerment and away from the liberal, interracial pacifism of Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ( SCLC).Ĭarmichael was born on Jin Port of Spain, Trinidad. ![]()
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