Watershed iconic activist of the civil rights and black power era. He is popularizing that term on june 15, 1966 in greenwood, mississippi. And he becomes this icon of the late 1960s. Carmichael is going to be stoically carmichael is going to be the most controversial black activist since malcolm x, he is friends with Martin Luther king jr. Civil rights for the next 30 years he becomes a revolutionary organizer who changes his name in honor of two of his political mentors in africa who were both the first president s of their countrys respectively. He takes the first name and third name. Host what part of the Civil Rights Movement was he involved in . When we think about maclean he is involved in every major action between 1960 and 1965 in the Civil Rights Movement, second half, he is a sit in demonstrator involved in the nonviolent coordinating committee, he is a freedom rider, and arrested for the first time on june 8, 1961, in mississippi, spends weeks in parchment penitentiary, the
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