Stokely Carmichael Quotes
We want Black power.
This appears to be the first use of the phrase "Black Power."
Stokely Carmichael [Kwame Toure], 1942-1998, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Speech, Greenwood, Mississippi, June 1966
Sourced by: Eigen's Political and Historical Quotations
This was the speech that started the "Black Power" Movement. The rally was held in a city park to Protest the murder just 10 days before of the civil rights activist, James Meredith. It also marked the break between the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the nonviolent movement lead by Martin Luther King. Because of that, the speech received so much publicity that "Black Power" became a significant political term instantly.
The Quakers were in the forefront of not only the abolition of slavery but of the integration of the races.
This phrase was also to be used over 100 years later by Malcolm X. See {624101} and {38291}.
Kwame Ture was a prominent organizer in the civil rights movement in the United States and the global Pan-African movement. Born in Trinidad, he grew up in the United States from the age of 11 and became an activist while attending the Bronx High School of Science. He was a key leader in the development of the Black Power movement, first while leading the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), then as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and last as a leader of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP).
