![]() ![]() He came not from a communist background - that would have made him a red-diaper baby - but from a progressive Jewish and intensely liberal Christian milieu that shaped his intellectual and political beliefs, making him a kind of pink-diaper baby. The Pan-Africanism he was to advocate in his later life was a philosophical and political attempt to tie this sense of black diaspora together.īorn in 1941 in Trinidad, Carmichael grew up in the United States, attending a largely Jewish high school in New York City. ![]() Joseph’s biography provides various answers to the question of who Carmichael really was and how he acquired so much influence over his peers.Ĭarmichael was born in the Caribbean, lived in the United States and died in Africa. “At a meeting at Lincoln University in 1966, Stokely Carmichael encouraged black students to start them.” Ever the political organizer, this Carmichael. I asked my oldest sister, who was a member of the Philadelphia branch of the SNCC (the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, of which Carmichael was a member and eventually chaired) why she with several others started the Black Student League at Temple University in 1966. ![]() ![]() A “Jeopardy” answer might be: “He was the most famous civil rights activist not to attend the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.” The correct question to that answer is “Who was Stokely Carmichael?” Another such answer might be: “He invented the slogan ‘Black Power’ and married famed South African singer Miriam Makeba.” The question again is “Who was Stokely Carmichael?” ![]()
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