Kwame Ture Credits Mukasa Dada for Black Power Slogan

Uploaded by mufasa101 on April 11, 2017 at 7:39 pm

Kwame Ture Credits Mukasa Dada for Black Power Slogan

Interview with former Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) chair Kwame Ture, formerly Stokely Carmichael, on how field secretary Mukasa Dada, formerly Willie Ricks, laid the groundwork for him to popularize the "Black Power" slogan, which called for black self-determination, at a rally at Broad Street Park, Greenwood, Miss., on June 17, 1966, during the "Meredith March Against Fear."

The original source did not indicate the place or date of the interview, but it was apparently conducted at Tougaloo, Miss., on March 18, 1971.

At the time, Ture was on a nationwide speaking tour and quietly beginning to organize the All-African Peoples Revolutionary Party (AAPRP), founded by deposed Ghanaian President Osagyefo ("Redeemer") Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, because he believed that pan-Africanism, which Dr. Nkrumah defined as "the total liberation and unification of Africa under an All-African Socialist Government," was the "highest stage of Black Power."

Ture, who with Dada had co-founded at Alabama in 1965 the Lowndes County Freedom Organization, an independent, all-black political group better known as the Black Panther party, introduces his close comrade at 00:06.

More videos on Ture and Black Power could be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpQ1woQ57j4&t=16s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWTz5P-aIvg&t=6s

A video of Dada calling for Black Power at at civil-rights rally at Atlanta, Ga., in 1966 could be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xibK58Vmejk

I would like to thank my old friend and mentor Mukasa and his wife, Maimuna, for kindly helping me to contextualize this video, and for continuing to fight for Black Power for peoples of African descent thruout the world. Happy Birthday, African!

NOTE: Since I posted this video on Feb. 18, 2017, additional information has come to light regarding where and when it was shot, correcting my apparently erroneous identification of Hayneville, Ala., on March 19, 1971. I regret any confusion that this might have caused.

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Interview with former Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) chair Kwame Ture, formerly Stokely Carmichael, on how field secretary Mukasa Dada, formerly Willie Ricks, laid the groundwork for him to popularize the “Black Power” slogan, which called for black self-determination, at a rally at Broad Street Park, Greenwood, Miss., on June 17, 1966, during the “Meredith March Against Fear.”

The original source did not indicate the place or date of the interview, but it was apparently conducted at Tougaloo, Miss., on March 18, 1971.

At the time, Ture was on a nationwide speaking tour and quietly beginning to organize the All-African Peoples Revolutionary Party (AAPRP), founded by deposed Ghanaian President Osagyefo (“Redeemer”) Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, because he believed that pan-Africanism, which Dr. Nkrumah defined as “the total liberation and unification of Africa under an All-African Socialist Government,” was the “highest stage of Black Power.”

More videos on Ture and Black Power could be found here: