KWAME TURE, formerly known as Stokely Carmichael, was among
the most fiery and visible leaders of Black militancy in the United
States in the 1960s, first as head of the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and then as prime minister of the
Black Panther Party, where he coined the phrase "Black Power." In
1969 he cut his ties with American groups over the issue of allying
with White radicals, and moved to Guinea. He declared himself a
pan-Africanist. In 1978 he changed his name to Kwame Ture, to honor
African socialist leaders Kwame Nkrumah and Ahmed Sekoe Toure. He
lived in Guinea for 33 years, until his diagnosis with prostate
cancer. He died in 1998.
CHARLES V. HAMILTON is a political scientist, civil rights leader,
and the W. S. Sayre Professor Emeritus of Government and Political
Science at Columbia University.
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