CSPAN2 In Depth March 8, 2014
Watershed iconic activist of the civil rights and black power era. He is popularizing that term on june 15, 1966 in greenwood, mississippi. And he becomes this icon of the late 1960s. Carmichael is going to be stoically carmichael is going to be the most controversial black activist since malcolm x, he is friends with Martin Luther king jr. Civil rights for the next 30 years he becomes a revolutionary organizer who changes his name in honor of two of his political mentors in africa who were both the first president s of their countrys respectively. He takes the first name and third name. Host ...