Picturing Black History

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Organization for African Unity (OAU)

Trinidad-born American Black activist Stokely Carmichael (later known as Kwame Ture, 1941 - 1998) (centre, left) with officials at a meeting in honour of an International Day of Solidarity with the American Black Power movement, Hanoi, North Vietnam, 1967.

International Networks of the American Civil Rights Struggle

What do Thurgood Marshall, Malcolm X, and Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) have in common? The internationalism of American civil rights activism.

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