1941-
Chairman, SNCC, 1966-1967;
Prime Minister, Black Panther Party, 1968-1969

Evolution of an Activist.

In the course of one decade Stokely Carmichael evolved from a nonviolent civil rights activist to a black revolutionary to an ardent Pan-Africanist.

Background.

Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Carmichael immigrated to Harlem, in New York City, when he was eleven and attended the Bronx High School of Science before enrolling at Howard University in Washington, D.C., in 1960. There he joined a group affiliated with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and took part every weekend in sit-ins and demonstrations to protest segregation in the Washington area. He also spent every summer of his college years as a volunteer with SNCC projects to register and organize black voters in the South, and in 1961 he spent forty-nine days in jail for taking part in one of the Freedom Rides to protest...