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3 giorni fa · Kwame Ture ( / ˈkwɑːmeɪ ˈtʊəreɪ /; born Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael; June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998) was an American activist who played a major role in the civil rights movement in the United States and the global pan-African movement.
21 ore fa · Eldridge Cleaver – Leader of the Black Panther Party who later became a Republican; James Meredith – Civil rights campaigner, who served as domestic adviser to Jesse Helms; James Weldon Johnson – Activist, served as treasurer of Colored Republican Club; Scipio Africanus Jones [citation needed] – Activist
4 giorni fa · A collection of works, published in 1969, by the defendants in the Chicago Eight Conspiracy Trial. Following the clashes at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, the US Department of Justice charged some of the organizers who had encouraged people to come to Chicago with incitement to riot, among other charges. All defendants in the trial were eventually acquitted or had their convictions ...
2 giorni fa · Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver called for revolution on the decolonization model, condemning the electoral system of the United States as fundamentally illegitimate.
1 giorno fa · The nine series included in Born Black include a rare glimpse inside San Quentin State Prison; extensive documentation of the Black Muslim movement and the Black Panthers; his commentaries on the deaths of civil rights leaders Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.; intimate portrait studies of Stokely Carmichael, Muhammad Ali and Eldridge Cleaver; and a narrative of the daily life of the ...
3 giorni fa · Jones told Lane that he wanted to "pull an Eldridge Cleaver", referring to a fugitive member of the Black Panthers who was able to return to the U.S. after rebuilding his reputation. Jones attempted to negotiate for his commune to resettle in the Soviet Union.
3 giorni fa · He then proceeded to trounce Patterson in the ring, drawing out the match for twelve humiliating rounds. With each blow, Ali crushed the hopes of his detractors and elevated the aspirations of his fans. Among the latter was Eldridge Cleaver. “Muhammad Ali is the first ‘free’ black champion ever to confront white America,” Cleaver wrote.
