1818 STOKELY

Inspired by Stokely. Stokely Carmichael was a social activist who protested for civil rights and advocated for global liberation of those of African descent. Born on the Caribbean island of Trinidad, Carmichael moved to Harlem, New York at the age of eleven. He went on to attend the historical Black college, Howard, where his passion for activism was birthed. He was only nineteen when he took his first Freedom Ride, and he became the youngest person jailed for attempting to integrate a “white’s only” counter in Mississippi. Carmichael later took a radical turn in his activism and famously said, “we been saying ‘freedom’ for six years…what we are going to start saying now is ‘Black Power.'” ...View all