by Stokely Carmichael with Ekwueme Michael Thelwell; Introduction by John Edgar Wideman

Head of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Honorary prime minister of the Black Panther Party, Bestselling author, Stokely Carmichael [Kwame Ture] is an American legenc, one whose work as a civil rights leader fundamentally altered the course of history--and our understanding of Pan-Africanism today. This book recounts the extraordinary course of Carmichael's life, from his Trinidadian youth to his consciousness-raising years in Harlem to his rise as the partriarch of the Black Power movement.