6/25/2023 0 Comments Stokely carmichael speechHit them now.' I kept saying, 'Give me time. And just when I got there-before I got there, Ricks was there saying, 'Hit them now. Don’t hit too much on Freedom Now, but hit the need for power.’ So we built up on the need for power. We're going against Freedom Now we’re going for Black Power. So he was not there the night in Greenwood. Stokely Carmichael: “Luckily for us, the night in Greenwood, King had to go to do a taped television thing, I think for 'Meet the Press,' so he had to go to Memphis. What we are going to start saying now is 'Black Power.'” Speaking years later, Carmichael explained the decision to adopt “Black Power” as the movement’s slogan. Following the shooting, Carmichael declared to a crowd of 3,000 people, “We been saying 'freedom' for six years. Carmichael was speaking after James Meredith, the first black student to attend the University of Mississippi, had been shot and wounded by a white man during the “Walk Against Fear” from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi. And today marks the 50th anniversary of Stokely Carmichael’s historic “Black Power” speech in Greenwood, Mississippi, on June 16, 1966.
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