Stokely Carmichael (June 29, 1941November 15, 1998), also known as
Kwame Turé, was a
Trinidadian-
American revolutionary active in the 1960s
Civil Rights Movement, and later, the global
Pan-African movement. Growing up in the United States from the age of eleven, he graduated from
Howard University. He rose to prominence in the civil rights and
Black Power movements, first as a leader of the
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the
Black Panther Party, and finally as a leader of the
All-African Peoples Revolutionary Party.