Maybe the single best autobiography to come out of the Movement struggles.Carmichael turns out to be a wonderful storyteller with a marvelous ear for dialogue. Ready for Revolution Carmichael to tell his story and finally take his rightful place in history. This landmark, posthumously published autobiography reintroduces us to a man whose love of freedom fueled his fight for revolution to the end.īe prepared to revise your understanding of civil rights. Carmichael's personal testimony captures the pulse of the cultural upheavals that characterize the modern world. In his own words, Carmichael tells the story of his fight for social justice with candor, wit, and passion-and a cast of luminaries that includes James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Bayard Rustin, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Ho Chi Minh, and Fidel Castro, among others. Ready for Revolution recounts the extraordinary course of Carmichael's life, from his Trinidadian youth to his consciousness-raising years in Harlem to his rise as the patriarch of the Black Power movement. Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) is an American legend, one whose work as a civil rights leader fundamentally altered the course of history-and our understanding of Pan-Africanism today. Honorary prime minister of the Black Panther Party. Head of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. The astonishing personal and political autobiography of Stokely Carmichael, the legendary civil rights leader, Black Power architect, Pan-African activist, and revolutionary thinker and organizer known as Kwame Ture. By Stokely Carmichael, With Michael Ekwueme Thelwell
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