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Celebrating the life of KWAME TURE | 20th Anniversary of his passing
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Celebrating the life of KWAME TURE | 20th Anniversary of his passing
Today is the 20th Anniversary of the passing of one of the greatest revolutionaries of our history... KWAME TURE (Formerly known as Stockely Carmichael)
Born in Trinidad on 29th June 1941, he moved to America at age 11 and would later become an activist in Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Under the tutelage of activists such as Ella Baker SNCC grew to be the primary organisation of young Black people in the Civil Rights Movement.
Kwame Ture was one of the key organisers and participants in many of the legendary demonstrations of that period including the Freedom Rides and the March in Selma (though he was cut out of the recent film on this event). In fact he can be found right beside Martin Luther King on many of the marches. SNCC was considered more militant wing of the civil right movement. They wage campaigns and civil disobedience against lynching, segregation, police brutality and political disenfranchisement.
In 1965 he co-founded the Lowndes County Freedom Organisation, which became better known by its symbol - the Black Panther Party. In 1966, as chair of SNCC, he delivered his famous BLACK POWER speech - which made the term a household name. This represented the shift from more moderate, to increasingly radical forms of activism.
In the same year, Bobby Seale & Huey P. Newton began the Black Panther Party for Self-Defence. They appointed Kwame Ture as honorary Prime-Minister. He would be one of the key voices and organisers against the War on Vietnam and his activism would inspire Martin Luther King and many others to do the same.
Kwame Ture became a prime-target of the FBI'S Counter Intelligence Programme (COITELPRO). He was considered by J Edgar Hoover as the most dangerous of the existing leaders following the assassination of Martin Luther King & Omowale Malcolm X.
In 1968, he married the legendary Mama Mariam Makeba. They moved to the nation of Guinea in West Afrika, which was then under the Revolutionary leadership of Sekou Toure & Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah. Baba Ture became their student, government aide and organiser. He and Mama Makeba became ambassadors for Pan-Africanism around the world. It was during this period that he reclaimed the name Kwame Ture, and wrote the noted book “Black Power to Pan-Africanism”.
In his classic “Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare”, Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah called for the establishment of an “All African Peoples Revolutionary Party” to challenged the spread of neo-colonialism in Afrika and forward the Afrikan liberation programme. Kwame Ture sought the Blessing of Nkrumah to begin the process – the Osagyefo gave his blessing.
For the rest of his life, Baba Kwame worked and built the AAPRP. He was instrumental in maintaining the international perspective on the Black liberation fight, strengthening ties between the Pan-African Congress of Azania, The Peoples Revolutionary Government of Grenada, the Native American Movement and many other organisations.
In 1983, Kwame Ture travelled to the UK. His trip was instrumental to the development of many organisations including the Pan-African Congress Movement (who were among those who hosted him), Black United Front, Alkebu-Lan Revivalist Movement and of the course the UK branch of the AAPRP. His success in the UK lead to the British government banning him from entry from 1986 onwards.
Though he only held the title of Organiser, he remained a Central Committee member of the AAPRP and its most noted member. Under his leadership the organisation grew to have branches in the UK, USA and many countries throughout the African continent. The AAPRP organised the All African Womens Revolutionary Union & Pan-African Womens Day. Baba Kwame believed that the organisation of Afrikan women deserved particular focus so as to challenge the possibility of the oppression of women in the movement.
One of his most lasting legacies is the international grassroots observance of Africa Liberation Day (ALD) as a tool for the political education and organisation of the African World. The AAPRP’s study groups have been a central hub for the education of many grassroots activists throughout the world.
Baba Kwame Ture died of Cancer on the 15th November 1998. He asserted the cancer “was given to me by forces of American imperialism and others who conspired with them.” But his legacy stands tall as a die-hard revolutionary from his teen years to the day he ascended the earthly plain. As he said those who live and fight on our behalf do not die in vain. Their blood fertilises the soil of the revolution.
Because he lived… there’s a whole lotta fertile soil about the place right ya now.
Love & honour to Baba Kwame Ture! READ FOR THE REVOLUTION!
Today is the 20th Anniversary of the passing of one of the greatest revolutionaries of our history… KWAME TURE (Formerly known as Stockely Carmichael)
Born in Trinidad on 29th June 1941, he moved to America at age 11 and would later become an activist in Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Under the tutelage of activists such as Ella Baker SNCC grew to be the primary organisation of young Black people in the Civil Rights Movement.
Kwame Ture was one of the key organisers and participants in many of the legendary demonstrations of that period including the Freedom Rides and the March in Selma (though he was cut out of the recent film on this event). In fact he can be found right beside Martin Luther King on many of the marches. SNCC was considered more militant wing of the civil right movement. They wage campaigns and civil disobedience against lynching, segregation, police brutality and political disenfranchisement.
In 1965 he co-founded the Lowndes County Freedom Organisation, which became better known by its symbol – the Black Panther Party. In 1966, as chair of SNCC, he delivered his famous BLACK POWER speech – which made the term a household name. This represented the shift from more moderate, to increasingly radical forms of activism.
In the same year, Bobby Seale & Huey P. Newton began the Black Panther Party for Self-Defence. They appointed Kwame Ture as honorary Prime-Minister. He would be one of the key voices and organisers against the War on Vietnam and his activism would inspire Martin Luther King and many others to do the same.
Kwame Ture became a prime-target of the FBI’S Counter Intelligence Programme (COITELPRO). He was considered by J Edgar Hoover as the most dangerous of the existing leaders following the assassination of Martin Luther King & Omowale Malcolm X.
In 1968, he married the legendary Mama Mariam Makeba. They moved to the nation of Guinea in West Afrika, which was then under the Revolutionary leadership of Sekou Toure & Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah. Baba Ture became their student, government aide and organiser. He and Mama Makeba became ambassadors for Pan-Africanism around the world. It was during this period that he reclaimed the name Kwame Ture, and wrote the noted book “Black Power to Pan-Africanism”.
In his classic “Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare”, Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah called for the establishment of an “All African Peoples Revolutionary Party” to challenged the spread of neo-colonialism in Afrika and forward the Afrikan liberation programme. Kwame Ture sought the Blessing of Nkrumah to begin the process – the Osagyefo gave his blessing.
For the rest of his life, Baba Kwame worked and built the AAPRP. He was instrumental in maintaining the international perspective on the Black liberation fight, strengthening ties between the Pan-African Congress of Azania, The Peoples Revolutionary Government of Grenada, the Native American Movement and many other organisations.
In 1983, Kwame Ture travelled to the UK. His trip was instrumental to the development of many organisations including the Pan-African Congress Movement (who were among those who hosted him), Black United Front, Alkebu-Lan Revivalist Movement and of the course the UK branch of the AAPRP. His success in the UK lead to the British government banning him from entry from 1986 onwards.
Though he only held the title of Organiser, he remained a Central Committee member of the AAPRP and its most noted member. Under his leadership the organisation grew to have branches in the UK, USA and many countries throughout the African continent. The AAPRP organised the All African Womens Revolutionary Union & Pan-African Womens Day. Baba Kwame believed that the organisation of Afrikan women deserved particular focus so as to challenge the possibility of the oppression of women in the movement.
One of his most lasting legacies is the international grassroots observance of Africa Liberation Day (ALD) as a tool for the political education and organisation of the African World. The AAPRP’s study groups have been a central hub for the education of many grassroots activists throughout the world.
Baba Kwame Ture died of Cancer on the 15th November 1998. He asserted the cancer “was given to me by forces of American imperialism and others who conspired with them.” But his legacy stands tall as a die-hard revolutionary from his teen years to the day he ascended the earthly plain. As he said those who live and fight on our behalf do not die in vain. Their blood fertilises the soil of the revolution.
Because he lived… there’s a whole lotta fertile soil about the place right ya now.
Love & honour to Baba Kwame Ture! READ FOR THE REVOLUTION!
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