Stokely Carmichael
Politician
1941 – 1998
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Who was Stokely Carmichael?
Stokely Carmichael, also known as Kwame Ture, was a Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s American Civil Rights 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 movements, first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party.
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- Born
- Jun 29, 1941
Port of Spain - Also known as
- Kwame Toure
- Kwame Ture
- Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael
- Carmichael, Stokely
- Parents
- Spouses
- Marlyatou Barry
- Miriam Makeba
(1968/04 - 1978)
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Afro-Trinidadian and Tobagonian
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Profession
- Education
- Howard University
- The Bronx High School of Science
- University of Toronto Mississauga
- Died
- Nov 15, 1998
Conakry
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on July 23, 2013
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