Continuation of “Stokely Carmichael – Part 8: The Radicalization of the SNCC under Carmichael’s leadership”
On June 16, 1966, during the Mississippi March against Fear Stokely Carmichael took the occasion to proclaim the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s change of direction. After each day’s march the leaders of the participating civil rights organizations usually addressed the Black [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Black Power’
June 28, 2009
Stokely Carmichael – Part 9: Carmichael proclaims “Black Power” during Mississippi March against Fear
March 5, 2009
Stokely Carmichael – Part 3: The Years at Bronx High School of Science
Continuation of “Stokely Carmichael’s Youth – From Port of Spain to New York City”.
… In 1956 Carmichael broke with the past. Being an “[...] intellectually precocious child, he [had] found American education a breeze compared with the British-based rigors he’d experienced in the Trinidadian school system”. Passing a tough entrance test he was admitted to [...]
February 27, 2009
Stokely Carmichael – Part 1: The Initiator of Black Power
I have always been fascinated by the strategic use of language and when I stumbled upon the following passage of Joshua Meyrowitz’s “No sense of Place” I decided to dedicate my attention to Carmichael’s rhetorical style.
November 10, 2008
As Tears of Joy Turn into Tears of Sorrow – Miriam Makeba dies at 76 – A (different) Tribute to the Singer and Black Activist
The South African artist, also known as “Mama Africa”, died after suffering a heart attack last night in Castel Volturno, Italy, where she performed at an Anti-Camorra concert in support of the Italian writer and journalist Roberto Saviano. For all of those who have never heard her name, they most definitely know her song “Pata [...]
