Stokely Speaks From Black Power to Pan-Africanism

Stokely Carmichael(19411998) began working with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1960 and became chairman in 1966. His "Black Power" speech reignited the movement of that name, and in 1967 he and Charles Hamilton wrote the bookBlack Power. In 1968 and 1969, he served as the honorary Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party and also became a student of, and aide to, presidents Kwame Nkrumah and Sekou Toure of Guinea, helping to organize the All-African People's Revolutionary Party. In 1978 he changed his name to Kwame Ture.Mumia Abu-Jamal, a jailed journalist and political activist, is the author of five books, includingLive from Death Row, and is a frequent radio commentator. The campaign to free him from a Pennsylvania prison since he was sentenced to death for allegedly killing a police officer has garnered international attention.Carmichael (Kwame Ture), Stokely is the author of 'Stokely Speaks From Black Power to Pan-Africanism', published 2007 under ISBN 9781556526497 and ISBN 1556526490.