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The friend I mentioned referred me to Stokely
Carmichael (Kwame Turé)'s autobiography. I don't
have a copy handy, but here is a review that
briefly discusses the infamous "quotation." I
suggest that people check the book out, rather
than relying on hazy 40-year-old memories. --PG
http://zmagsite.zmag.org/Mar2004/engler0304.html
Book Review
Ready for Revolution
By Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)
Scribner, 2003, 848 pp.
Review by Mark Engler & Paul Engler
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Many would dispute the idea that nonviolence had
been exhausted in 1964. But within a few years, a
new generation of civil rights activists would
move to the forefront, advocating a distinctly
un-Gandhian brand of militancy. Chief among them
was Stokely Carmichael, whose autobiography,
Ready for Revolution, was just published-five
years after his death-with the help of his
friend, writer Michael Thelwell.
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Even the stories that have defined his image
within activist circles are often off-base. On
the organizer's behalf, Thelwell convincingly
argues that Carmichael's infamous sexist remark
(answering "prone" to a question about the place
of women in the movement) was a joke taken out of
context. Mary King and Casey Hayden, the supposed
targets of the quip, defend Carmichael as being
one of the men in SNCC most sympathetic to their
criticisms of patriarchy within the organization.
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