DID YOU KNOW POWER ACTIVIST AND A FOUNDER OF THE BLACK POWER MOVEMENT STOKELY CARMICHAEL AKA KWAME TURE IS CARIBBEAN?

• Stokely Carmichael, also known as Kwame Ture (June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998), was a Trinidadian activist active in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and later, the global Pan-African movement. Growing up in the United States from the age of eleven, he graduated from Howard University and rose to prominence in the civil rights and Black Power movement
• Ture was a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party, and finally as a leader of the All-African Peoples Revolutionary Party.
• At 19 years of age, Carmichael became the youngest detainee of the Civil Rights movement in the summer of 1961.He spent 53 days at Parchman Farm in "a six-by-nine cell.
• In 1964, Carmichael became a full-time field organizer for SNCC in Mississippi.
•  Carmichael became chairman of SNCC in 1966, taking over from John Lewis. A few weeks after Carmichael took office, James Meredith was shot and wounded by a shotgun during his solitary "March Against Fear". Carmichael joined Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Floyd McKissick, Cleveland Sellers and others to continue Meredith's march. He was arrested during the march and, upon his release, he gave his first "Black Power" speech
• In May 1967, Carmichael stepped down as chairman of SNCC and was replaced by H. Rap Brown.
•  After stepping down as SNCC chair, Carmichael wrote the book Black Power (1967)
• After the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., FBI director J. Edgar Hoover instructed a team of agents to find evidence connecting Ture to the DC rioting over Martin Luther King's assassination.
• Carmichael changed his name to Kwame Ture, to honor the African leaders Nkrumah and Touré, who had become his patrons.
• For the final thirty years of his life, Kwame Ture was devoted to the All-African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP)
• In 1998 Carmichael died of prostate cancer at the age of 57 in Conakry, Guinea. He had said that his cancer "was given to me by forces of American imperialism and others who conspired with them."He claimed that the FBI had infected him with cancer in an assassination

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