Immigrant of the Day: Stokeley Carmichael (Trinidad and Tobago)

Stokley Carmichael was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on June 29, 1941 and died in 1998. One of the leading figures in the American civil rights movement of the 1960s, Carmichael rose to prominence as a member and later the chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), working with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders to organize civil rights protests. Carmichael later lost faith in the tactic of non-violence and became a leader in the Black Panther Party. 

Carmichael moved to Harlem, New York City in 1952 at age eleven to rejoin his parents, who had immigrated when he was age two and left him with his grandmother and two aunts.  He graduated from Howard University.  Click here for more details about Stokeley Carmichael’s life.

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