| LC control no. | n 50032466 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998 |
| Variant(s) | Ture, Kwame Toure, Kwame |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Guinea |
| Birth date | 1941-06-29 |
| Death date | 1998-11-15 |
| Place of birth | Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago) |
| Place of death | Conakry (Guinea) |
| Affiliation | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) Howard University Nonviolent Action Group (Washington, D.C.) Black Panther Party All-African People's Revolutionary Party Lowndes County Freedom Organization Freedom Rides |
| Profession or occupation | African American civil rights workers |
| Found in | His Black power, 1967. His Black power, 1992: CIP t.p. (Stokely Carmichael) publr. info. (Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael); Mr. Ture; now lives in Guinea) WW Black Amer., 1994/95 (Carmichael, Stokely (Kwame Toure); b. 6/29/41) Washington Post, Nov. 16, 1998: obit. (Kwame Ture, as Stokely Carmichael a leading civil rights activist in the 1960s, age 57, died Nov. 15, 1998, in Conakry, Guinea; officer in Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Black Panther Party; moved to Guinea in 1968, active in Pan-African movement; born June 29, 1941, in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad) Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1941) African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Carmichael, Stokely; born Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael, later known as Kwame Ture; civil rights activist; born June 29, 1941 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, British West Indies; at the age of eleven moved to Harlem, later in the Bronx to join his parents; majored in philosophy and became an activist at Howard University; joined SNCC full time (1964) and was named chairmen (1966); created the all-black Lowndes County Freedom Organization, which took as its logo a fierce black panther; left SNCC and accepted the post of prime minister of the Black Panther Party, which took its name from the symbol Carmichael had used in Mississippi; remained with the Black Panthers for little more than a year, resigning because of the organization's refusal to disavow the participation of white radicals; in 1969 left America for Africa, settled in Conakry, Guinea, changed his name to Kwame Ture and became affiliated with the All-African People's Revolutionary Party; toured U.S. colleges for several weeks each year speaking on behalf of the party and its mission of unifying the nations of Africa; died November 15, 1998 in Conakry, Guinea) African American National Biography, accessed January 12, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Carmichael, Stokely; Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael; Kwame Ture; civil rights activist; born 29 June 1941 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad; graduated from Howard University (1964); joined the Freedom Rides organized by CORE(1961); created Lowndes County Freedom Organization; elected chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) (1966); left SNCC and became prime minister of Black Panther Party (1967); left America, made his home in Conakry, Guinea (1969); affiliated with the All-African People's Revolutionary Party; died 15 November 1998 in Conakry, Guinea) |
| Associated language | eng |
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