News Release (October 6, 1973) Stokely Carmichael to Give Speech at Evergreen
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News Release (October 6, 1973) Stokely Carmichael to Give Speech at Evergreen
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6 October 1973
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The Evergreen
NEWS
Olympia. Washington
for immediate release
October 6, 1973
Stokely
College
98505
for further information
Judy Prentice, 866-6128
Carmichael,
Black Panther
State
black political
theorist
Party, will speak at a free and~en
and former prime minister
meeting
October
of the
9 at The Ever-
green State College.
Topic of his speech,
"Nkrumahism:
sponsored
The Correct
Ideology
by the Evergreen
Carmichael,
after becoming
zation
to be delivered
UJAMAA
32, popularized
chairman
founded by Martin
at 8 p.m. in Lecture Hall One, is:
of the African
Society,
Revolution."
a black student
the phrase
The event is
group.
'black power' in 1966 within
of the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating
a month
Committee,
Luther King in the early 1960s to organize
an organi-
sitins in the
south.
Born in the West Indies,
Carlllichaelmoved
to the Bronx in New York City at
the age of 11 and was raised in a predominately
school
graduation,
in college,
he had participated
white neighborhood.
Before his high
in sitins in the south and, while
spent 49 days in the Mississippi
State Penitentiary
still
for his civil
rights activities.
A 1966 graduate
resigned
citizen
of Howard University
with a major in philosophy,
from SNCC in 1968 and from the Black Panthers
of Africa's
Guinea
and is married
He is now a
to singer lliI<L "am il1oilk<e1pta:»a
-30-
Dick
in 1969.
Nichols.
Infor mation
Director
Services
Carmichael
SO:Jl1tih.
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