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Kwame Ture/Stokely Carmichael

    Black and white photo of Stokely Carmichael, the future Kwame Ture, when he was chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, pronounced “SNICK”). This photo from 1966 shows Carmichael in Mississippi wearing blue denim overalls in solidarity with poor Black tenant farmers and Black working people generally.

    Kwame Ture (formerly Stokely Carmichael) at a January 1966 press conference in Mississippi. Carmichael was a model and inspiration for Black Power, a revolutionary idea he popularized. His militant activism and advocacy for Black racial pride and self-determination, as well as his relentless anti-imperialism, were hallmarks he shared with his militant precursors King, Malcolm X, and Robeson.

    1966
    Copyright
    Public domain (published between 1927 & 1977 without notice of copyright)
    Attribution/Credit

    Unknown; cropped image, via “Kwame Ture,” Wikipedia