![]() ![]() He would go on to join the militant Black Panthers, a move that would lead the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to publicly denounce his ideas as dangerous and racist. The message, delivered in no-nonsense, plain-spoken English, represented a rejection of the teachings and style of the Reverend King, whose advocacy of nonviolent civil disobedience and the belief that blacks and whites had to work together toward racial reconciliation Carmichael himself had once championed in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).Ī controversial figure and an inspiration for frustrated black Americans, Carmichael was jailed during civil rights activities some twenty-seven times, once in Jackson, Mississippi, for forty-nine days. ![]() It was upon his release that Carmichael made the speech presented here calling for black Americans to reject the values of a society that he felt were preventing them from reaching their full potential. among them, vowed to complete the march in his name, only to be arrested by police in Greenwood, Mississippi. When James Meredith was shot by a sniper during his one-man "March Against Fear," Stokely Carmichael (1941–1998) and others, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. "BLACK POWER" SPEECH (28 July 1966, by Stokely Carmichael) ![]()
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