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That's the stereo type. he's 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 in the civil rights movement? >> milissa, he moves to guinea in west africa and becomes kwame it is...

Stokely carmichael. and those clips show him saying, hell no, we won't go. and that's the phrase from the anti-war movement. he's not just a black power activist but a human rights activist and anti-war activist. >> you're 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 carmichael's freshman english class, howard, how did these relationships shape his activism? >> they shaped it very, very importantly and indelibly. he learns from activists like fanny lou hamer in mississippi, and they teac...