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Article: Kwame Ture, Civil Rights Leader Who Coined `Black Power,' Dies.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
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- Jet
- Article date:
- November 30, 1998
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Kwame Ture, who as Stokely Carmichael made the phrase "Black Power" a rallying cry of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, recently died in Guinea in West Africa. He was 57.
The cause of death was prostate cancer, which he had been battling since he was diagnosed in 1996.
Born in Trinidad on June 29, 1941, and raised there and in New York, Ture enrolled in Howard University in 1960, where he received a degree in philosophy and plunged into the civil rights revolution.
In a time when young Black college students were being beaten and arrested for daring to sit at Whites-only Southern lunch counters, Carmichael joined the first Freedom ...