A Tribute to Kwame Toure

A Tribute to Kwame Toure: "Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) / Black-Power:The Politics of Liberation
Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism
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A Tribute to Kwame Toure/Stokely Carmichael
The Life and struggle of a Revolutionary Warrior
Dr. Floyd W. Hayes, III
December 1, 1998
I want to express my appreciation to Ms. Dorothy Washington, the Black Cultural Center’s Librarian [Purdue University], for inviting me to comment on the life and struggle of our recently deceased brother, Kwame Toure. I am honored to talk about a person, who in many respects, represents the highest expression and continuing significance of the modern American struggle for black human rights that emerged in the 1960s.
He became civil rights reformist, Black Power activist, and Pan-African revolutionist. Toure is significant because it was he, along with fellow SNCC worker Willie Ricks, who enunciated audaciously the 'Black Power' slogan during June of 1966, which provided the political language for the turbulent black liberation struggle during the late 1960s and 1970s."