Our Visit to the House of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)!

Kwame Ture, also known as Stokely Carmichael, was born in Trinidad and raised in New York. While attending Howard University in Washington, D.C., Ture spent his summers in the south working with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Much of his effort with SNCC was to get African-Americans registered to vote, these efforts were often met with violent resistance from segregationists. It has been said that Ture had his hand in every major demonstration and event that occurred between 1960-1965. Ture spent the early ‘60s embracing non-violent protest, but his stance began to change when 3 civil rights workers were murdered, followed by the assassination of Malcolm X, and the crushing military presence in several cities, Ture began to rethink his beliefs. In 1966, at a demonstration in Mississippi, Ture coined the term “Black Power”. With increased pressure from the FBI and CIA, Toure decided to flee America. Ture would travel the globe preaching the merits of pan-Africanism for another three decades. Mr. Kwame Ture was laid to rest in Guinea in 1998 at age 57.