LibGuides: Black History Month: Stokely Carmichael

Stokely Carmichael Online Resources:

Stokely Carmichael, a voice of freedom was an extremely important figure in the Civil Rights movement - 19 year old freedom rider, Chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and later he became Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party.

SNCC 1960-1966: Six years of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
This site shows six years in the history of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a racially integrated group of college students who coordinated grassroots demonstrations and registered voters in the South.

SNCC used tactics like sit-ins, voter registration drives, freedom rides, and "jail no bail" to force the hand of segregationists.
Stokely Carmichael Biography
Stokely Carmichael's "Black Power" speech
"We've been saying freedom for six years. Now we're going to start saying 'Black Power.'"

This speech at the University of California at Berkeley set a different tone for the Civil Rights movement.