Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 2 P28 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | 258 CARMICHAEL STOKELY CROSS REFERENCES Automobiles Double Jeopardy. v CARMICHAEL STOKELY African American activist leader and militant Stokely Carmichael is known for the galvanizing cry Black Power which helped transform the later years of the civil rights movement. The raised fist that accompanied the slogan was a rallying point for many young African Americans in the late 1960s. Carmichael s forceful presence and organizing skill were compelling reasons to join. In 1966 he was elected chairman of the STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE SNCC a civil rights organization popularly called Snick. Leaving Atlanta-based SNCC in 1967 with a more radical vision Carmichael became prime minister of the Oakland-based black panther party for selfDEFENSE BPP perhaps the most militant of 1960s African American groups. Members of Congress denounced him for allegedly seditious speeches other politicians and civic leaders blamed him for causing riots and the federal bureau of investigation FBI matched this fervor with counterintelligence activities. Bitterly severing his ties with the black power movement in 1969 Carmichael announced that he would work on behalf of pan-Africanism a socialist vision of a united Africa. He moved to Guinea West Africa where he lived and worked until his death in 1998. Carmichael was born in port of Spain Trinidad on June 29 1941. Two years later he was placed in a private school as his father mother and two sisters immigrated to the United States. At school he earned the nickname Little Man for his quick intelligence and precocious awareness traits that had him urging his aunt to vote when he was turned away from polling booths at the age of seven. He received a British education at the Tranquillity Boys School a segregated institution from the age of ten to eleven before nearly dying of pneumonia. As an adult he would recall the Tranquillity School experience with bitterness for drugging him with white European views. His parents brought him
