Person · 1941–1998
Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)
The SNCC chairman who popularized the cry of "Black Power" in 1966 and pushed the movement toward Black self-determination.
A defining voice of [[black-power]].
A veteran of the Freedom Rides and Mississippi organizing, Stokely Carmichael became chairman of SNCC and, during the 1966 Meredith March, gave voice to a rising impatience with the rhetoric of "Black Power."
He later allied with the Black Panther Party and, as Kwame Ture, devoted his life to Pan-Africanism. He marked the movement's turn from integration toward power and self-determination.