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He was born in Trinidad but came to the United States as a child and grew up in in Harlem.

Nothing passive in that.”Ībove all else, Stokely Carmichael was a grassroots organizer. It offered a way for a large number of to join the struggle. “It gave our generation–particularly in the South–the means by which to confront and entrenched and violent racism. Yet he credited nonviolent activism as leading him and other young Black people like himself into the Movement. Stokely Carmichael canvassing in Lowndes County, Alabama, undated, īecause of his call for “Black Power” during the June 1966 Meredith March Against Fear in Mississippi, Stokely Carmichael is often remembered as confrontational in style and far removed from nonviolence.