Stokely Carmichael

Trinidadian-American civil rights activist who coined the phrase 'Black Power' and transformed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from an integrationist to a Black nationalist organization.

Coined 'Black Power' as both a slogan and a political program — shifting the civil rights movement's dominant discourse from integration toward self-determination — and later moved to Guinea and adopted Pan-African politics as Kwame Ture.