Stokely Carmichael

Stokely Carmichael ( born June 29, 1941 Trinidad, † November 15, 1998 in Conakry, Guinea, and Kwame Toure ) was civil rights.

Life

Carmichael grew up in New York City. There he participated in 1961 in demonstrations against racial segregation in the South.

From 1966 to the end of 1967 he was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and spoke in this function on the Latin American Solidarity Conference (OLAS ) conference in Havana, which made him known worldwide. In his book Black Power (1967 ) coined and he first defined the concept of institutional racism.

Following the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968 the principle of non-violence had failed him. He called for a guerrilla struggle. He became a leading member of the Black Panther Party, which he soon left again because he understood the union of all blacks in " Black Power " regardless of their class membership against white America in 1968.

Along with the jazz singer Miriam Makeba, whom he married in 1968, he emigrated to Guinea, where he took the name Kwame Ture - in honor of Kwame Nkrumah, who led Ghana's independence from Great Britain, and Sékou Touré, who in Guinea a similar had played the role and invited as president Carmichael and Makeba to live in Guinea. Until his death he was a member of the founded by Nkrumah Pan-African " All- African People's Revolutionary Party ".

Carmichael died of prostate cancer.