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Article: Ture's phrase `black power' was civil rights rallying cry
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- November 16, 1998
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Kwame Ture, who as Stokely Carmichael made the phrase "black
power" a rallying cry of the civil rights upheavals of the 1960s,
died Sunday in Guinea, a member of Ture's All-African People's
Revolutionary Party said. He was 57.
Sharon Sobukwe, a member of the organization in Philadelphia,
said Ture died of prostate cancer. She learned of his death from
Amadou Ly, an AAPRP member and one of Ture's closest friends, who
was with him when he died.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson said he visited with Ture three times at
his home in Guinea during a trip to Africa last week.
"In many ways he was at peace with himself," Jackson said in a
telephone interview from Washington. "He wanted for his last days
to ...