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 ...

Stokely Carmichael carge to Boston ... But in principle the SNCC reasoning goes deeper than the rousing words used at rallies. The injustices perpetrated on the Negro by the white man over ...

Born in Trinidad in 1941, Stokely Carmichael came to New York at age 11. He became active in the Southern civil rights movement with SNCC, registering voters in the Deep South, and helped form an ...

Carmichael rejected non-violence and the idea of working with white campaigners. White people were no longer welcome in the SNCC. Figure caption, The runners Tommie Smith (centre) and John Carlos ...