“Welcome Freedom Riders,” proclaimed a large ... Makeba had of course served as the teenaged Stokely’s romantic dream. In fact, in Carmichael’s telling, he wore a “silky Harry Belafonte ...

At the time of the Freedom Rides, Stokely Carmichael was a 19-year-old student at Howard University, the son of West Indian immigrants to New York City. Carmichael made the journey to Jackson ...

Stokely Carmichael had already served ... “We have been saying ‘Freedom’ for six years,” Carmichael declared in a thundering voice. “What we are going to start saying now is ‘Black ...

The late congressman John Lewis was among the original group of 13 Freedom Riders. Others who rode buses into the South included civil rights activists Stokely Carmichael, Diane Nash, Tom Hayden ...

The activist Stokely Carmichael played a major role in both ... in Mississippi following the 1961 Freedom Rides when he was only 19 years old and still a college freshman. By the time he was ...

How Stokely Carmichael and the Black ... rallying cry of the civil rights movement had been "Freedom now!" But, he says, on June 16, 1966, Carmichael ushered in a new call to arms — "Black ...