Stokely Carmichael Research Paper

Moriah Gore
November 21, 2014
Ms. Martin
English III
Abstract

Intro

Background
Stokely Carmichael was born June 29, 1941 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Carmichael lived with his two aunts and his grandmother and attended Tranquility Boys School until age 11. He then moved to the U.S and joined his parents in Harlem, New York and became the only black member of a street gang called the Morris Park Dukes. He said in an interview with Life he dated white girls and attended parties at Swank Park Avenue during this period in his life. After his family moved to the Bronx, he settled down. He discovered the lure of intellectual life. He was admitted to the Bronx High School
He eventually alienated Carmichael. While he was in school the civil rights movement was gaining momentum. Alabama, successfully desegregated the city’s buses. During Carmichael’s senior year in high school, four African American freshmen from North Carolina staged a sit in at the white- only lunch counter in Woolworth. Some young people in New York City, including Carmichael, joined a boycott of the city’s Woolworth stores that were sponsored by the Youth division of the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE). CORE hoped that the boycott would pressure Woolworth’s owners to desegregate all of its stores’ facilities throughout the country. Carmichael traveled to Virginia and South Carolina to join anti-discrimination sit-ins because of his growing sensitivity to the plight of African Americans in the United Stated, especially south. He refused to attend white colleges and seceded to study at the historically black Howard University in Washington DC. At Howard from 1960-1964, Carmichael majored in Philosophy, Carmichael stayed in the south as much as possible sitting-in, picketing, helping with voter registration drives, and working alongside other leaders of SNCC. He was elected SNCC leader during the 1964
From 1897 to 1910, Du Bois served as professor of economics and history at Atlanta University. He organized conferences titled the Atlanta University Studies of the Negro Problem and edited or co-edited Ice of the annual publications. Du Bois also wrote two novels, The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911) and Dark Princess: A Romance (1928). A book of essays and poetry, Darkwater: Voice from within the Veil (1920) and two histories of black people, The Negro (1915) and The Gift of Black Folk: Negros in the Making of America (1924). The Quest of the Silver Fleece was W.E.B. Du Bois' first novel. Published in 1911 by A.C. McClurg & Co. of Chicago, the novel combined literary realism with some romanticism and political-economic analysis to provide a story of two Black protagonists, a man and a woman, who eventually work together to build an economic community -- a community that provided a way to overcome both the overt and the systemic racism of a fictional post-Reconstruction Alabama town and county. The silver fleece of the title referred to cotton, which was the valuable crop that, as Du Bois suggested in the novel, would help rural African Americans become self-sufficient. Du Bois mentioned The Quest of the Silver Fleece in a few of his later works. In his 1915 book The Negro Du Bois included Quest under the