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Influential Black Leaders - Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)

Influential Black Leaders - Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)

Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) was a Trinidadian American civil rights activist known for leading the SNCC and the Black Panther Party in the 1960s. Who Was Stokely Carmichael? Stokely Carmichael rose to prominence as a member and later the chairman of the SNCC, working with Martin Luther King Jr. and other Southern leaders to stage protests. Carmichael later lost faith in the tactic of nonviolence, promoting "Black Power" and allying himself with the militant Black Panther Party. Renaming himself Kwame Ture, he spent most of his later years in Guinea, where he died in 1998.  Early Life Carmichael was born on June 29, 1941, in...

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Assata Shakur - Influential Black Leaders

Assata Shakur - Influential Black Leaders

  On May 2, 2013, the FBI placed Assata Shakur, now living in Cuba, on its Most Wanted Terrorists list, which has included the likes of Osama Bin Laden and other Al Quaeda figures, some of whom were executed by drones. This was the day after the State Department was due to release its list of terrorist countries from which Cuba was widely expected to be removed, as even the Miami Herald reported. Release of that list has been postponed and the State Department has asserted Cuba will remain on it, handing a victory to the exiled Cuban plantocracy and...

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