Stokely Carmichael, the charismatic and controversial black activist, stepped into the pages of history when he called for “Black Power” during a speech one Mississippi night in 1966. A firebrand who straddled both the American civil rights and Black Power movements, Carmichael would stand for the rest of his life at the center of the storm he had unleashed. A nuanced and authoritative portrait,Stokelycaptures the life of the man whose uncompromising vision defined political radicalism and provoked a national reckoning on race and democracy.
Peniel E. Josephis a professor of history and the director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Tufts University. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Counter-Punch“Peniel E. Joseph's newly published biography of Black liberation activist Stokely Carmichael not only takes its rightful place next to Taylor Branch's epic trilogy
The King Years, but also to one of the most powerful autobiographies by any American: Stokely Carmichael's own
Ready For Revolution....
Stokely: A Lifeis a quality read. By highlighting the life of one of the US civil rights/black liberation most important organizers and thinkers, Peniel E. Joseph has done a great service to history and to the people Stokely fought for. Furthermore, Peniel's text has lifted Carmichael out of an obscurity he not only didn't deserve, but which also prevented a more complete understanding of a man who, with Malcom X and Martin Luther King, Jr., deserves to be recognized as one of the great leaders of one of the greatest grassroots movements for liberation in history: the Black freedom struggle in the United States.”
Afro-American“Meticulously-researched and painstakingly-detailed,
Stokely: A Lifeis a fast-flowing, informative read which intimately follows its subject from the cradle to the grave in absorbing lĂ#
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