Stokely Carmicheal

One of the most significant leaders who caused Black Power Revolution in Trinidad is Stokely Carmicheal also known as Kwame Ture. He was born in Belmont, Trinidad and then migrated to Harlem New York. There he went Howard University where he became the head of a student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1966 and was later considered with the effort to bring together African Americans and bring them into power in a party known as Black Panther Party. He further goes on to becoming attached to the Black Nationalist and the Pan-Africanist movements in the United States. He was given credit for the term ‘Black Power’ which he quoted for his first speech called ‘Black Power Speech’. In this journal, I will be focusing on the different ways in
They remained in control of Teteron for 10 tension filled days. The leaders eventually led themselves to be arrested and charged with open rebellion against authority. Close to 100 soldiers were charged for refusing to obey orders, and for taking control from those in authority, also for trying to defeats its government. This state of emergency stayed effective for six months. During these six months 80 odd activists were held on Nelson Island and at Port of Spain. Black Power did not stop existing with the culmination of the emergency or the arrests and sentencing of the mutiny soldiers. In 1971 an NJAC pamphlet on Confrontation: White Power Structure vs Workers, about the strikes of the federation Chemicals Ltd. And Dunlop, the pamphlet states that the claims of workers were no longer concerned about increase of wages, basically their struggle is one for their manhood; a struggle for recognition of their humanity, a struggle to assert their pride, to observe justice for
Famous among this new breed were many calypsonians such as Mighty Duke, Black Stalin, and Brother Resistance. In 1971, even a calypso song was sung by Chalkdust, by the name ‘An answer to Black Power’ which emphasized on solving the black man’s problems. This was his creative way of reaching out to black people throughout. A carnival band by the name of Pinetoppers brought out a presentation called ‘The Truth about African’ which caught the attention of a large amount of both poor and black youths and others from the University of the West Indies Campus. There were some touchable changes also such as a growth in the number of black colored bank tellers working in banks and an end, although temporary, to the beauty competition winners are to be light skinned