Born in Trinidad, came here at the age of 11. So why don't you just start at the beginning. He's considered kind of one of the godfathers or the founding figures of the Black Panther Party. I mean, he was chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. MARTIN: You know, you remind us of the breath of his accomplishment all before the age of 30. PENIEL JOSEPH: Oh, thank you for having me, Michel. It is called "Stokely: A life," and Peniel Joseph is with us now. And now, in what he calls an act of recovery, Professor Joseph has spent a decade preparing a comprehensive biography of Stokely Carmichael. This despite the fact that the language and the style he evoked are used to this day. If I were to ask you to name a person who helped organize or participated in every major civil rights demonstration of the mid-1960's, what names would come to mind - Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, Bayard Rustin, James Bevel.Ĭhances are the name Stokely Carmichael would not, at least according to historian Peniel Joseph who believes that Carmichael's essential place in the history of the fight for the recognition of black people's rights and dignity has been all but forgotten. I'm Michel Martin, and this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News.
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