Ture didn’t just rail against capitalism. "They are ready to fight America not because they are tired of what America has been doing and has been doing to them, they are ready to fight America because they have been inspired by the heroic people of Vietnam who defeated American imperialism before the eyes of the world." "The peoples of the world today are ready to fight America," he said. In 1973, he spoke at Antioch College as a radical critic of capitalism, the American government, and the recently ended war in Vietnam.
After that, he would return to the United States to give fiery, militant speeches. In 1969, disillusioned with the slow pace of racial progress in the United States, Carmichael emigrated to the west African country of Guinea, and changed his name to Kwame Ture. “We been saying ‘freedom’ for six years - he said - What we are going to start saying now is ‘Black Power.'”
Civil rights leader James Meredith had been shot marching from Memphis to Jackson, Mississippi in a peaceful protest called the “Walk Against Fear,” and Stokely Carmichael was outraged at the shooting. Stokely Carmichael was the man who made “Black Power” a household phrase back in 1966.
Rediscovered Radio producer Jocelyn Robinson tells us more. Later, Carmichael became the national chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC, and was an early member of the Black Panther party, too.Ĭarmichael was a brilliant and inflammatory public speaker, and the WYSO Archives contains one of his speeches. He was a young activist in the 1960s-one of the youngest jailed during Freedom Summer in 1964. That change can be described best by learning the story of Stokely Carmichael. Today on Rediscovered Radio, a return to the time when the Civil Rights movement took a more militant turn toward Black Nationalism.
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