Stokely Carmichael

the beginning of Carmichael

• Birth:  Port of Spain on June 29, 1941
• He went to Howard University.
• Before he graduated from college he participated in two freedom rides.
• The two rides were in Jackson, Mississippi and in Maryland. 
• He was arrested for sitting on an "all- white bus."

Work in the SNCC

• Stokely joined the SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
• He registered black voters from 70 to 2600 people in one year.
• Stokely founded the Lowndes County Freedom Organization party.
• Used his party symbol as a black panther.

His Change

• He became upset with the slow pace of progress
• When he became an officer he made the SNCC a violent organization
• He did not allow whites to join anymore.
• He started to march on the “Walk Against Fear” saying a famous quote:
• “We been saying 'freedom' for six years. ...

Black Power

Stokely decided to join the Black Panther Party

Leaving the Us

• Stokely left the US and went to Guinea in 1969.
• He said, “America does not belong to the blacks,"
• He believed the African Americans should leave the US.
• Stokely Carmichael did create freedom for African Americans in the US.