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Essay on Stokely Carmichael
Stokely Carmichael also known as Kwame Ture was a black civil rights activist and writer. At the age of 11, Stokely Carmichael left Trinidad to come with his family to New York City. His parents encouraged him to achieve something by excelling in school, and Carmichael won right of entry in 1956 to the selective Bronx High School of Science, where he was one of only about 50 black students among the more than a few thousand students enrolled. In 1960 Carmichael decided to attend Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he soon became active in the civil rights movement. Along with other students, he participated in sit-ins designed to end racial segregation, or the separation of blacks and whites.
He joined the Nonviolent Action Group in Washington, which was affiliated with the student-led Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1961 he participated in the Freedom Rides, a campaign against segregation in interstate transportation. He was arrested when he attempted to amalgamate a bus terminal in Jackson, Mississippi, and spent most of his summer vacation in a Mississippi jail. While participating in the civil rights movement, Carmichael also continued his academic studies, graduating from Howard in 1964, with a degree in way of life.
After leaving college, Carmichael became a field secretary for SNCC, and worked in the campaign to register blacks in Mississippi to vote. During the summer of 1964, he took part in a Freedom Summer project designed to register blacks and build support for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP). Unlike the regular all-white Democratic Party in the state, the MFDP allow people of all races to join. However, national Democratic leaders, such as President Lyndon Johnson, failed to support the MFDP effort to be seated in the place of the regulars at the 1964 national Democratic Convention......
