Stokely+Carmichael

=Stokely Carmichael=

29th June 1941 - 15th November 1998
//Stokely Carmichael was a Trinidandian - African who largely participated and contributed to the 1960s American Civil Rights Movements.//

Stokely Carmichael, also known as Kwame Toure, was born on 29th June 1941 in Trinidad. In 1952 when Carmichael was 2 he moved to the United States and lived in New York City where he went to high school in 1952. In 1960 he went to Howard University and then shortly after joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commitee (SNCC)

In 1961 a year after first attending Howard University he joined the Freedom Riders. In these Freedom Rides both black and white volunteers sat on buses that drove into the Deep South. The police were unwilling to protect these buses and in many places were bashed by white mobs as a result of the lack of security. However, in Jackson, Mississippi, Carmichael was arrested and put in jail for 49 days. This did not stop him yet made him more determined and he worked on the Freedom Summer project and was made chairman of the SNCC in 1966 at age 25.

On 5th June 1966 the March Against Fear was initiated as James Meredith started a solitary march and was shot by a sniper. Other black rights campaingers decided to follow on with the march from...

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