This one-time chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is credited with popularizing the slogan "Black Power."
Stokely Carmichael
H. Rap Brown
Huey P. Newton
Bobby Seale
James Meridith
Stokely Carmichael.
Civil rights leader and one-time chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Stokely Carmichael is credited with popularizing the slogan "Black Power? during a march led by James Meridith. Carmichael was elected chairman of SNCC on May 14, 1966. The ?Black Power? slogan was endorsed by the Congress of Racial Equality but rejected by the NAACP Convention in 1966.
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