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- When we , the freedom riders traveled to Mississippi, I was arrested for the first time ever, but Kings Southern Christian Leadership conference awarded me a scholarship designed to support arrested students like myself. After I finished college I joined the SNCC’s staff full time working on many projects for Freedom in Mississippi. A year later during the Selma to Montgomery March in March 1965 I stayed back in Alabama to help the African American people outside of Selma from Lowndes County Freedom Organization, which was an all black independent political group that was known as the “Black Panther Party”.
- Hi, Im Stokely Carmichael, I was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. I then grew up in the United States since age 11. I then became an activist during my highschool years at Bronx High School of Science.
- This is the school where I was selected through high achievement on their standardized entrance examination. Also while being here I participated in a boycott at one of the local White Castles because they did not hire blacks.
- After graduation in 1960, I was enrolled at Howard University, a historically black university in Washington, D.C.. During that time I also enrolled as a philosophy major and joined the university's Nonviolent Action Group. Whilst working against segregation in Washington, D.C., Carmichael traveled south on the Freedom Rides.
- In 1966, I Stokely Carmichael would replace John Lewis as chairman of SNCC. A month later King, CORE’s Floyd Missick and I organized a march for James Meredith, he was wounded by a sniper. Soon after King and I had a little fierce debate although we respected each other well, the debate was for the future of the civil rights movement. When our march for James, had reached Greenwood, Mississippi, I was arrested for the 27th time, after my release I held a rally, a rally to call for Black Power, which King disapproved of the slogan. We had many disagreements and compromises but it would soon fail to cooperate.
- Later on in the 60s, I had joined with black nationalists in stressing racial unity over class unity as a basis for future black struggles. I relinquished my SNCC chairmanship in 1967 and made what some people would say “controversial” decisions. I had trips to Cuba, China, North Vietnam, and finally to Guinea. I returned to the United States with the intention of forming a black united front throughout the nation. I received and accepted an invitation to become prime minister of the militant Oakland-based Black Panther Party. In 1969 I left the Black Panthers because I disagreed with the party's willingness to work with radical whites. I changed my name to Kwame Ture and moved to Guinea. I helped form the All-African People's Revolutionary Party in 1972 and urged African American radicals to work for African liberation and Pan-Africanism.
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