2009/04/20 by Kenneth R. Sullivan · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Medicine · #Caribbean history, culture, and politics #Grandparent #George (robot) #White (mutation) #Genealogy #Art #History #Gerontology #Art history #Medicine #Biology #Political science #Genetics #Law
paper · doi:10.1002/9781405198073.wbierp0302
openalex publication_date 2009/04/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/14
Stokely Carmichael (later, Kwame Turé) was born into a working‐class family on June 29, 1941 in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Carmichael remained in Trinidad with his grandparents when his parents left for the United States in search of work, and was eventually reunited with his parents in 1952, moving with them to the South Bronx in New York City. The family later moved to the working‐class Italian American, Morris Park‐White Plains neighborhood in the Bronx. As a young man, Carmichael frequented Michaux's African Bookstore on 125th Street and the Schomburg Museum on 141st Street. It was in Harlem, on 125th Street especially, where Carmichael became familiar with the passionate oratory of numerous “stepladder” speakers, as well as elder Trinidadian activists C. L. R. James (1901–89) and George Padmore (1902–59).