Until his departure for Guinea-Conakry in early 1969 and his subsequent involvement in the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party, he was one of the driving forces behind the development of an independent black political base and an international network in support of deserters from the U.S. Within a timeframe of hardly four years, his organizational efforts evolved from the mobilization of black voters in Alabama and Mississippi to the building of a large movement resisting military draft at the height of the Vietnam war. What tends to fall into oblivion is that Stokely Carmichael, who eventually adopted the name Kwame Turé, has also been a proficient grassroots organizer, both in the U.S. His name has been associated with the Black Power slogan ever since he gave new meaning to it in a famous speech in 1966. Often compared to Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr, people considered him an oratorical genius, who knew how to interact with different audiences and adapt his discourse to their response. In the U.S., Stokely Carmichael has been known for his extraordinary rhetorical skills at the time that the Civil Rights movement was in full swing.
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