About the Author

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Kwame, formerly known as Stokely Carmichael, is one of the foremost, Nkrumahist-Toureist, revolutionary Pan-Africanist and internationalist philosophers and organizers of the 20th century. He was an integral part of the student and youth, human and civil rights, nationalist and Black Power, Pan-Africanist and socialist, peace, and anti-repression movements. He was a member of the Non-Violent Action Group at Howard University, the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, the Lowndes Country Freedom Organization, the Black Panther Party, the Movement to take Kwame Nkrumah Back to Ghana, the Democratic Party of Guinea, the Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania, and an organizer for the All-African People's Revolutionary Party. He authored three books: Black Power: The Politics of Liberation, which he coauthored with Charles Hamilton; Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism, which was edited by Ethel Minor; and Ready for Revolution: the Life of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), which was co-authored with Michael Thelwell. He gave hundreds of interviews, delivered thousands of speeches and untold numbers of articles, position papers, and reports.