5/19/2023 0 Comments Black power charles hamilton![]() ![]() “It could be the place where black people have amassed political power and used that power effectively.” “Tuskegee, Alabama, could be the model of Black Power,” Carmichael and Hamilton wrote in 1967. ![]() Hamilton published the Black Power movement’s definitive text, it was no surprise that they devoted an entire chapter to Tuskegee’s prospects as a model. ![]() Thus, when Kwame Ture (né Stokely Carmichael) and Charles V. Both the student activist and Vietnamese civilians, the organization wrote, were killed for “seeking to secure the rights guaranteed them by law.” Later that year - and against the counsel of their elders - Tuskegee students successfully campaigned to elect the first Black sheriff in the South since Reconstruction: Lucius Amerson, who would go on to win four re-election campaigns. Citing the murder, SNCC became the first civil-rights organization to openly oppose the Vietnam War. In January 1966, Younge, a Navy veteran, was murdered by a white man for trying to use a segregated gas-station restroom. ![]()
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