It's also the year when when Stokely Carmichael replaced John Lewis as chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and challenged the tactic of non-violence. Whitaker examines ...

Another factor, he thinks, may have been national polls “showing that more people were approving of Martin Luther King Jr. than Stokely.” In 1967, Carmichael departed SNCC and joined the more ...

In the fall of 1966, Stokely Carmichael was a 25-year-old rising ... the Chair for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), he set out on a travel campaign to spread the message ...

When the march reached Greenwood, Mississippi, Stokely Carmichael, the recently named chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), got permission from a local Black school to ...

He found the talk by the leader of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) “thoughtful and ... The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture). In the latter half of ...

In other words, Stokely Carmichael and the new leadership group ... John Lewis had always stood for the principle of SNCC being open to white membership. He had a lot of very close friends ...