Stokely Timeline

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Stokely Carmichael

1956: -Joined Congress of


Racial Equality (CORE).
Picketed at Woolworths
store in NY
-Traveled to Sit-ins in
Virginia and South
Carolina

1964: copied Freedom


Summer, making an
aggressive campaign to
register black votes in the
Deep South.

1961: Went on first


Freedom Ride, he was
arrested for entering the
Whites Only bus stop
waiting room.

1968: His book, Black


Power: The Politics of
Liberation, he
explained the meaning
of Black Power.

1965: Moved to Lowndes


County, Alabama, he
founded his own political
party known as the Black
Panther.

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