Stokely Speaks

Name: Stokely Speaks
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9781613742952

by Unknown Author

256 pages2007Lawrence Hill BooksISBN 9781613742952

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Stokely Carmichael traces the dramatic changes in his own consciousness and that of black Americans that took place during the evolving movements of Civil Rights, Black Power, and Pan-Africanism. Provides essays on racism, Black Power, t;he pitfalls of conventional liberalism, and soldarity with the oppressed masses and freedom fighters of all races and creeds.

Publication Details

Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
Published: 2007
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781613742952

About Unknown Author

Kwame Ture was a Trinidad-born, u.s.-raised Pan-Africanist & revolutionary socialist. He first gained prominence under his birth name, Stokely Carmichael, as a civil rights activist with SNCC in the 1960s; his politics became revolutionary & internationalist with the emergence of the Black Power movement. From the late 1960s, he moved to Guinea-Conakry, formed the All-African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP), & changed his name to Kwame Ture in honor of [Kwame Nkrumah](/authors/OL267708A) & [Sékou Touré](/authors/OL480665A). He remained politically active up to his death; his co-authored book with [Charles V. Hamilton](/authors/OL643354A), *Black Power*, was [republished during his lifetime](/books/OL1746457M/) under his chosen name.