Kwame Ture

Kwame Turé (June 29, 1941 - November 15, 1998), formerly known as Stokely Carmichael, rose to prominence in the civil rights and Black Power movements. First as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and later as the Honorary Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party where he coined the phrase “Black Power.”

In 1969 he cut his ties with American groups over the issue of allying with White radicals and moved to Guinea. He declared himself a pan-Africanist. In 1978 he changed his name to Kwame Ture, to honor African socialist leaders Kwame Nkrumah and Ahmed Sekoe Toure. He lived in Guinea for 33 years, until his diagnosis with prostate cancer. He died in in Conakry, Guinea.