STOKELY CARMICHAEL [KWAME TURE]
\nMarch 14, 1971<\/p>\n
Carmichael, a Trinidadian-American revolutionary credited for coining the term \u201cBlack Power,\u201d flashed a brilliant smile as he posed with two local detectives at Byrd Airport. Carmichael\u2019s message transformed throughout his years in the Civil Rights Movement from nonviolence to militant self-defense. Ultimately, Carmichael changed his name to Kwame Ture and joined the Pan Africanist, All African People\u2019s Revolutionary party. Pan Africanism addressed what Carmichael saw as the central problems black people face: landlessness, capitalist exploitation, and racism. <\/p>\n
In 1971, Carmichael brought his call for Pan Africanism to students at Virginia Union University. He was coming to a city where black citizens had struggled for over a decade to find a political voice. As a court ordered the city to adopt a busing plan to integrate its schools, fears of integration and a new Downtown Expressway spurred white flight into the surrounding counties. Carmichael\u2019s visit to Richmond signified that black students and Richmonders alike were at least interested in hearing what Carmichael had to say. <\/p>\n
Stokely Carmichael with Sergeant Dalton Rotruck Duling and Detective F. L. Coleman at Byrd Airport, March 14, 1971, Courtesy of The Valentine <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"