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Stokely Carmichael & Black Power

Stokely Carmichael & Black Power. By: To’nai Moore 5/21/10. Quotes From Mr.Carmicheal.

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Stokely Carmichael & Black Power

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  1. Stokely Carmichael & Black Power By: To’nai Moore 5/21/10

  2. Quotes From Mr.Carmicheal • "This is the twenty-seventh time I have been arrested and I ain't going to jail no more! The only way we gonna stop them white men from whuppin' us is to take over. What we gonna start sayin' now is Black Power!"

  3. Background • Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael, also known as Kwame Ture, was born June 29, 1941 and died November 16, 1998. • He was a Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. • He popularized the word Black Power.

  4. Quotes From Mr. Carmichael • "Black Power meant black people coming together to form a political force and either electing representatives or forcing their representatives to speak their needs.”

  5. Black Power Background • “Black Power" expresses a range of political goals, from defense against racial oppression, to the establishment of separate social institutions and separatism.

  6. Quotes From Mr.Carmichael • It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations.

  7. Bibliography • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokely_Carmichael • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Power

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