Stokely Carmicheal was a radical activist who was born in Trinidad to a father that was a carpenter. He emigrated to america in 1952 and was immediately shocked by the racism factor he encountered. While he attended college at Howard University, he was elected the leader of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and he changed the groups focus to “black liveration” from integration. He also populated the phrase Black Power and as the prime minister of the Black Panther party, came to symbolize black violence to many whites. He opposed forming alliances with radical whites which was the reason why he left the panthers, because the party decided to use this a approach in 1968. After he left the Panther party he bagan to call himself Kwame Ture to honor African socialists Kwame Nikrumah and Ahmed Sekou Ture. He also married an african signer Miriam Makeba, later they moved to Guinea in 1969. There he tried Pan-Africanism even though he found no support from the US or Africa. Eventually he divorced Makeba and married a Guinean doctor named Marlyatou Barry. He later divorced her also and after 2 years of battling with prostate cancer he past away ...
