Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)

Arrest Date	24 May 1961
Arrest Location	Jackson, Mississippi
Charge	Freedom Rider. Sentenced to forty-nine days at Parchman Farm.

Historical Record

Stokely Carmichael spent forty-nine days at Parchman Farm — the Mississippi State Penitentiary — as a Freedom Rider at age nineteen. He later chaired SNCC and introduced the phrase “Black Power” into the national vocabulary during a 1966 speech in Greenwood, Mississippi. He was arrested dozens of times across the movement.

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The full Good Trouble profile for Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) — including sourced archival photography, expanded biographical history, and complete arrest record — is in development. This page will be updated as the archive grows.

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