Kwame Ture (born Stokely Carmichael) was a Trinidadian-American activist, central to the civil rights movement in 1960s America. He was the leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (1966-7) and the Black Panther Party (1967-9), and popularised the phrase ‘Black Power’.
Charles V. Hamilton was the Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government and Political Science at Columbia University. He was a pioneering thinker in the Black Power movement and a leading theorist of institutional racism.
