Stokely Carmichael

Stokely Carmichael (later Kwame Ture) was a Trinidadian-American civil rights organizer who became chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1966 and popularized the slogan 'Black Power' that summer in Greenwood, Mississippi. He was arrested for the first time as a 19-year-old Freedom Rider in 1961 and served 49 days in Mississippi's Parchman Penitentiary in solitary confinement, in maximum security with the men on death row. He was arrested at least 32 more times over the following decade for civil rights organizing. He spent his last decades in Conakry, Guinea, organizing through the All-African People's Revolutionary Party.