Stokely

From the author of The Sword and the Shield , this definitive biography of the Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael offers "an unflinching look at an unflinching man" ( Daily Beast ).   Stokely Carmichael, the charismatic and controversial Black activist, stepped onto 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