Joseph has done a great service to history and to the people Stokely fought for. By highlighting the life of one of the US civil rights/black liberation most important organizers and thinkers, Peniel E. Joseph’s newly published biography of Black liberation activist Stokely Carmichael not only takes its rightful place next to Taylor Branch’s epic trilogy The King Years, but also to one of the most powerful autobiographies by any American: Stokely Carmichael’s own Ready For Revolution. Joseph’s detail rich biography delves into the life of a political activist turned icon while not forgetting to show us his human side.”- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “This is at its heart a book of ideas - ideas about power, freedom, and identity - and of a life, the author writes, that ‘took shape against the backdrop of a domestic war for America's very soul.’”- Boston Globe Joseph's biography fills a huge void and is a welcome addition to the scholarly literature on the civil rights movement.”- Washington Post “Joseph's account of Carmichael's life is well-written and well-researched, providing persuasive explanations for his appeal.
“An insightful, highly engaging and fluently written biography.”- New York Times Book Review Joseph presents a groundbreaking biography of Carmichael, using his life as a prism through which to view the transformative African American freedom struggles of the twentieth century.Ī nuanced and authoritative portrait, Stokely captures the life of the man whose uncompromising vision defined political radicalism and provoked a national reckoning on race and democracy. In Stokely, preeminent civil rights scholar Peniel E. A firebrand who straddled both the American civil rights and Black Power movements, Carmichael would stand for the rest of his life at the center of the storm he had unleashed. Stokely Carmichael, the charismatic and controversial Black activist, stepped onto the pages of history when he called for "Black Power" during a speech one Mississippi night in 1966. From the author of The Sword and the Shield, this definitive biography of the Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael offers "an unflinching look at an unflinching man" ( Daily Beast).
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