Stokely Carmichael

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Black Power leader civil rights activist human political organizer

Stokely Carmichael was a prominent civil rights activist and leader in the Black Power movement, known for his work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Black Panther Party.

Aliases (3)

Kwame Ture ×2
Stokely Carmichael was chairman of SNCC ×1
Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael ×1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Black Power leader → civil rights activist → human → political organizer →
alsoKnownAs	Kwame Ture →
birthName	Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael →
causeOfDeath	prostate cancer →
citizenship	Guinea → Trinidad and Tobago → United States of America →
coAuthorWith	Charles V. Hamilton →
countryOfBirth	Trinidad and Tobago →
dateOfBirth	1941-06-29 →
dateOfDeath	1998-11-15 →
educatedAt	Howard University →
ethnicGroup	African diaspora →
fieldOfStudy	philosophy →
graduationYear	1964 →
ideology	Black nationalism → Pan-African socialism →
influenced	Black Power movement in the United States → global Pan-African movements →
influencedBy	Frantz Fanon → Kwame Nkrumah → Malcolm X →
knownFor	advocacy of Black self-determination → critique of nonviolent integrationist strategies → grassroots organizing in the American South →
languageSpoken	English →
marriageEnd	1978 →
marriageStart	1968 →
memberOf	All-African People’s Revolutionary Party → Black Panther Party → Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee →
mentorOf	younger Black Power activists →
movement	Black Power movement → Civil rights movement → Pan-Africanism →
notableFor	popularizing the slogan "Black Power" in the United States →
notableWork	Black Power: The Politics of Liberation →
placeOfBirth	Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago →
placeOfDeath	Conakry, Guinea →
positionHeld	Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee → Honorary Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party → Leader in the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party →
religion	secular political activism (no widely documented formal religious affiliation) →
residence	Guinea → United States of America →
spouse	Miriam Makeba →

Referenced by (12)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Black Power movement → Black Power movement ("Kwame Ture") →	hasKeyFigure
Stokely Carmichael ("Kwame Ture") →	alsoKnownAs
Lowndes County Freedom Organization →	associatedWith
Stokely Carmichael ("Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael") →	birthName
Howard University →	hasAlumni
1966 Meredith March Against Fear →	hasParticipant
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee →	keyPerson
1966 Meredith March Against Fear →	notableSpeechBy
Freedom Rides →	participant
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ("Stokely Carmichael was chairman of SNCC") →	positionHeld
Black Power movement →	sloganPopularizedBy