Kwame Ture

CTL-E-6201 · Person · activist · 1941–1998

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07397 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6201.

Kwame Ture (June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998), born Stokely Carmichael in Port of Spain, Trinidad, was a civil rights leader, antiwar activist, and Pan-African revolutionary. His family moved to New York City when he was eleven. He attended Howard University, joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960, and took part in sit-ins and Freedom Rides throughout the Deep South; when SNCC turned to voter registration, he led the campaign that established the Lowndes County Freedom Organization. Elected SNCC's national chairman in May 1966, he popularized “Black Power” on June 16, 1966, at a rally in Greenwood, Mississippi, during the continued March Against Fear, defining the term as a call for Black people to unite, recognize their heritage, build community, define their own goals, and lead their own organizations. The Black Panther Party named him its Honorary Prime Minister in 1968. He changed his name to Kwame Ture in honor of Pan-African leaders Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana and Sékou Touré of Guinea, settled permanently in Conakry, Guinea in 1969, and spent his last decades building the All-African People's Revolutionary Party. He died of prostate cancer in Conakry in 1998, aged 57.

The record

• Also known as: Stokely Carmichael

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Scan Tail Wave 5 — 747 Program, Wave 12; fifth Scan Tail packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): Gate A CLEAR and hand-checked 2026-10-16 under BOTH name forms: no 'Kwame Ture' and no 'Stokely Carmichael' entity exists in entities.json. SNCC exists as CTL-E-5421 and the Black Panther Party as CTL-E-5641, enabling the edges below; Howard University exists as CTL-E-0312. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger Tier 4 scan-tail reserve banked by Scan Tail Wave 4 (747-to-4,000 program), staged in Scan Tail Wave 5 Batch E; STAGED ONLY — not merged. Scan rank #2286. SCOPE GATE: 747 Supply Ledger Tier 4 scan-tail reserve, corpus-gap-candidates rank #2286. Record name 'Kwame Ture' per packet instruction, with 'Stokely Carmichael' as alias. Vital status: Deceased — died November 15, 1998, in Conakry, Guinea, of prostate cancer, aged 57 (HISTORY, updated 2025; BlackPast, 2018). STATISTICS — Counted/sourced/dated, conflicts SHOWN not blended: (1) SNCC chairmanship start — HISTORY gives election in May 1966; BlackPast's text states 'In May 1965, Carmichael was elected to replace John Lewis' — the record follows May 1966 (HISTORY, and BlackPast's own headline dates and sequence place the 'Black Power' proclamation in 1966 after his election). (2) Name change — BlackPast dates the change to Kwame Ture to 1968; HISTORY narrates the change alongside his 1969 settlement in Conakry without fixing a year. The record asserts only the honorees (Nkrumah and Touré, agreed by both) and shows the year as contested. (3) Death — November 15, 1998, aged 57 (HISTORY); BlackPast gives the year 1998 and place Conakry, cause prostate cancer. (4) The Greenwood speech date June 16, 1966 is agreed by HISTORY and BlackPast's companion speech entry. MEDIA: photo HELD (HELD — photograph 'Stokely Carmichael at a 1966 Mississippi press conference' on the BlackPast entry (labeled 'Public Domain Image' on that page; CTL claims no license and has not independently verified status), status HELD pending CTL-PHOTO-001 record. — named candidate only; file-level rights verification per CTL-PHOTO-001 still required; no license claimed); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-6201-kwame-ture.svg); video HELD (no matching-entity CTL Short or verified-rights archival video staged); audio HELD (no rights-cleared matching-entity audio staged); map N/A (person record). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Persons are not mapped per packet instruction.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created chart (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced statistics and timeline fact) | video = HELD (HELD — no matching-entity entry for this name or its aliases in the CTL Shorts Link Map (shorts-link-map-2026-) | audio = HELD (No CTL-held audio. Archival recordings of the 1966 Greenwood address exist in external archives; none ingested)

Relationships

• Black Panther Party — affiliated with
  The Black Panther Party named Carmichael its Honorary Prime Minister in 1968 (BlackPast). The Black Panther Party is CTL-E-5641 in the live graph; affiliated_with is used because the role was honorary rather than ordinary membership.
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) — member of organization
  Ture joined SNCC in 1960 and was elected its national chairman in May 1966 (HISTORY; BlackPast). SNCC is CTL-E-5421 in the live graph.

Referenced by

• Howard University — has alumnus → this record

Sources

• BlackPast.org — 'Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) (1941-1998)' (published 2018-08-05) (accessed 2026-10-16) — Birth June 29, 1941 in Port of Spain; Howard and SNCC from 1960; Lowndes County Freedom Organization; 1966 'Black Power' proclamation; Honorary Prime Minister 1968; name change honoring Nkrumah and Touré; settled in Conakry 1969; died of prostate cancer in 1998 — https://blackpast.org/african-american-history/carmichael-stokely-kwame-ture-1941-1998/ (primary source · build store)
• HISTORY (A&E Television Networks) — 'Stokely Carmichael' (published 2009; updated 2025-12-10) (accessed 2026-10-16) — Chairman elected May 1966; June 16, 1966 Greenwood 'Black Power' address during the March Against Fear and its definition; permanent residence in Conakry from 1969; died November 15, 1998, aged 57 — https://www.history.com/articles/stokely-carmichael (build store)

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