Ready for revolution : the life and struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) / Stokely Carmichael ; with Ekwueme Michael Thelwell
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- 3060692
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- Carmichael, Stokely
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- New York : Scribner, c2003
- x, 835 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0684850036
- 0684850044
- 9780684850047
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"By any measure, Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) fundamentally altered the course of history. Published at the fifth anniversary of Carmichael's death, this long-awaited autobiography fills a yawning gap in the American historical record as it chronicles the legendary civil rights leader's work as chairman of SNCC, patriarch of Black Power, Pan-African activist, and social revolutionary. It is an unflinching, searing, often visionary testament to the man's legacy and joins the works of Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Malcolm X, and Nelson Mandela as a crucial and colorful contribution to contemporary history.".
"As in life, the Carmichael in these pages is the definition of charisma and determination. In sharp prose full of Carmichael's candor, wit, irrepressible sense of irony, and undying love for his people, Ready for Revolution relates with clear-eyed intelligence the epic struggle for human liberation in our time. Carmichael - who in 1978 changed his name to Kwame Ture in honor of his mentors, the revolutionary African leaders Kwame Nkrumah and Sekou Toure - recounts the course of his own experience and struggles, ranging from the prison farms and lynch mobs of Mississippi through the firefights and political intrigue of the African liberation wars to Black Power and Pan-Africanism. His transformation from immigrant child to impassioned activist is spellbinding.
Populated with an international cast of luminaries, including James Baldwin, Fannie Lou Hamer, Miriam Makeba, Shirley Graham Du Bois, Toni Morrison, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Ho Chi Minh, and Fidel Castro, Ready for Revolution captures, as few books ever have, the pulse of the cultural upheavals that define the modern world."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Introduction
- I. Oriki: Ancestors and Roots
- II. The House at the Forty-Two Steps
- III. A Tale of Two Cities
- IV. "A Better Neighborhood"
- V. Bronx Science: Young Manhood
- VI. Howard University: Everything and Its Opposite
- VII. NAG and the Birth of SNCC
- VIII. Nonviolence
- Apprenticeship in Struggle
- IX. The Great Leap Forward: The Freedom Rides
- X. Nashville: A New Direction
- XI. To School or Not to School
- XII. The Hearts and Minds of the Student Body
- XIII. Mississippi (1961-65): Going Home
- XIV. A Band of Brothers, a Circle of Trust
- XV. Of Marches, Coalitions, Dreams, and Ambulance Chasing
- XVI. Summer '64: Ten Dollars a Day and All the Sex You Can Handle
- XVII. They Still Didn't Get It
- XVIII. The Unforeseen Pitfalls of "Success" American Style
- XIX. Selma: Crisis, Chaos, Opportunity
- XX. Lowndes County: The Roar of the Panther
- XXI. "Magnified, Scrutinized, Criticized..."
- XXII. "We Gotta Make This Our Mississippi"
- XXIII. Black Power and Its Consequences
- XXIV. Around the World in Eighty Days
- XXV. Mother Africa and Her Suffering Children
- XXVI. In That Ol' Brier Patch
- XXVII. Conakry, 1968: Home to Africa
- XXVIII. Cancer Brings Out the Best in People
- XXIX. A Struggle on Two Fronts
- Postscript
- Afterword: In the Tradition
- Acknowledgments
- Index.
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- Includes index.
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- Thelwell, Michael
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