Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) by Carmichael, Stokely

Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780684850047)

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Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) by Carmichael, Stokely

Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)

$24.00
Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) by Carmichael, Stokely

Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)

$24.00
Format: Paperback
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The astonishing personal and political autobiography of Stokely Carmichael, the legendary civil rights leader, Black Power architect, Pan-African activist, and revolutionary thinker and organizer known as Kwame Ture.

Head of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. Honorary prime minister of the Black Panther Party. Bestselling author. Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) is an American legend, one whose work as a civil rights leader fundamentally altered the course of history--and our understanding of Pan-Africanism today. Ready for Revolution recounts the extraordinary course of Carmichael's life, from his Trinidadian youth to his consciousness-raising years in Harlem to his rise as the patriarch of the Black Power movement.

In his own words, Carmichael tells the story of his fight for social justice with candor, wit, and passion--and a cast of luminaries that includes James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Bayard Rustin, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Ho Chi Minh, and Fidel Castro, among others. Carmichael's personal testimony captures the pulse of the cultural upheavals that characterize the modern world. This landmark, posthumously published autobiography reintroduces us to a man whose love of freedom fueled his fight for revolution to the end.

Author: Stokely Carmichael
ISBN-10: 0684850044
ISBN-13: 9780684850047
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Language: English
Published: 02/15/2005
Pages: 848
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.66lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.46w x 1.49d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 04/10/2005 pg. 36
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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 on November 15, 1998.

Michael Thelwell has been a professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, since 1969. Before that he was a civil rights worker. He writes on topics such as politics and civil rights.

John Edgar Wideman's books include American Histories, Writing to Save a Life, Philadelphia Fire, Brothers and Keepers, Fatheralong, Hoop Dreams, and Sent for You Yesterday. He is a MacArthur Fellow, has won the PEN/Faulkner Award twice, and has twice been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and National Book Award. He divides his time between New York and France.

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