| Stokely Carmichael, born this day in 1941 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, was a civil rights activist and a leader of black nationalism in the United States in the 1960s. Having immigrated to New York City in 1952, Carmichael joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1966 he became its chairman, and during a march in Mississippi he rallied demonstrators in founding the “black power” movement, which espoused self-defense tactics, self-determination, political and economic power, and racial pride. |