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Thats the stereo type. hes really a complicated charismatic but also sensitive, intelligent and intellectual figure who listened more than he learns from leading different figures of the period, including martin luther king jr. who was a good friend, even though they disagreed politically. >> carmichael changed his name to kwame tur and married miriam makeba. and then he moved to ghana. why the move to africa when engrained in the culture here, and did that hurt his legacy and credibility here i...

Stokely carmichael. and those clips show him saying, hell no, we wont go. and thats the phrase from the anti-war movement. hes not just a black power activist but a human rights activist and anti-war activist. >> youre right about the civil rights pioneer that is a young carmichael crossed paths with poet sterling brown, tony morrison, who we are familiar with teaching carmichaels freshman english class, howard, how did these relationships shape his activism? >> they shaped it very, very importa...