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“We been saying freedom for six years and we ain't got nothin'. What we gonna start saying now is Black Power!”

Source: Speech at a rally during the March Against Fear, Greenwood, Mississippi, 16 June 1966

Context Freed from jail that day after pitching marchers’ tents on school grounds in Greenwood, the SNCC chairman addressed an evening rally during the march begun by James Meredith.

Portrait of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)
Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)United States · 1941–1998
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