June 1966
James Meredith was shot and wounded by a sniper on the second day of his solo 220-mile 'March Against Fear' from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi. He survived. Civil rights leaders including King, Carmichael, and Floyd McKissick took up the march in his name, drawing national attention to continuing terror against Black Mississippians.
SNCC chairman Stokely Carmichael, arrested for the 27th time while on the Meredith March in Greenwood, Mississippi, told the crowd: 'We been saying freedom for six years and we ain't got nothin'. What we gonna start saying now is Black Power!' The crowd took up the chant. The phrase ignited a national debate on the direction of the movement.
Events
- June 16, 1966Stokely Carmichael Declares 'Black Power' in Greenwood
SNCC chairman Stokely Carmichael, arrested for the 27th time during the Meredith March in Greenwood, Mississippi, told the crowd: 'What we gonna start saying now is Black Power!' The crowd took up the chant, igniting a national debate on the direction of the movement.
- June 16, 1966Stokely Carmichael Declares 'Black Power' in Greenwood
SNCC chairman Stokely Carmichael, arrested for the 27th time while on the Meredith March in Greenwood, Mississippi, told the crowd: 'We been saying freedom for six years and we ain't got nothin'. What we gonna start saying now is Black Power!' The crowd took up the chant. The phrase ignited a national debate on the direction of the movement.
- June 6, 1966James Meredith Shot During March Against Fear
James Meredith was shot and wounded by a sniper on the second day of his solo 220-mile 'March Against Fear' from Memphis to Jackson, Mississippi. Civil rights leaders including King, Carmichael, and Floyd McKissick continued the march in his name.
- June 6, 1966James Meredith Shot on March Against Fear in Mississippi
James Meredith was shot and wounded by Aubrey James Norvell with a shotgun on day two of his 220-mile March Against Fear from Memphis to Jackson. Meredith survived. Continuing marchers included MLK, Stokely Carmichael, and Floyd McKissick; Carmichael made his public 'Black Power' declaration at Greenwood.
- June 6, 1966James Meredith Shot on March Against Fear in Mississippi
James Meredith was shot and wounded by Aubrey James Norvell with a shotgun on the second day of his 220-mile March Against Fear from Memphis to Jackson, Mississippi. Meredith survived. Civil rights leaders including MLK, Stokely Carmichael, and Floyd McKissick continued the march, during which Carmichael made his public 'Black Power' declaration in Greenwood.
- June 6, 1966James Meredith Shot During March Against Fear
James Meredith was shot and wounded by a sniper on the second day of his solo 220-mile 'March Against Fear' from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi. He survived. Civil rights leaders including King, Carmichael, and Floyd McKissick took up the march in his name, drawing national attention to continuing terror against Black Mississippians.
- June 6, 1966The Meredith March Against Fear
After James Meredith is shot beginning a solo march, movement leaders continue it — and Stokely Carmichael raises the cry of "Black Power."
- June 16, 1966The call for "Black Power"
Stokely Carmichael popularizes the slogan during the Meredith March.