Black Ink by Stephanie Stokes Oliver

Author:Stephanie Stokes Oliver
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria / 37 Ink

Reading for Revolution

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STOKELY CARMICHAEL [KWAME TURE]

I spent hours in the library enduring the taunts of the neighbor kids about being “a bookworm.” With Olympian impartiality, I read everything and anything.

“Ready for Revolution” is how Stokely Carmichael habitually answered his telephone. Born in Trinidad in 1941, Carmichael grew up in New York City, where he attended the elite Bronx High School of Science. Graduating from Howard University (where one of his young professors was Toni Morrison), he rose to prominence as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), as an activist in the civil rights movement, and an advocate for global Pan-Africanism. In 1969, he moved to Guinea in West Africa with his wife, singer Miriam Makeba, where he served as an aide to Guinea’s president Ahmed Sékou Touré, and became a student of exiled Ghanaian president Kwame Nkrumah. In honor of his mentors, he took the name Kwame Ture. He died in Guinea in 1998.

In this passage from his autobiography, Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael [Kwame Ture], we learn about the parents who nurtured his quest for knowledge and the voracious reading habits that set him off on an educational path that in 1967 led him to infuse into the diasporic consciousness the inspiring philosophy and bold rallying cry of “Black Power.”

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