![]() ![]() ![]() “We have been saying ‘Freedom’ for six years,” Carmichael declared in a thundering voice. Meredith, who had earlier integrated the University of Mississippi, survived, and the protesters were going to march for him. On the night of the 16th, Carmichael addressed a crowd of some 600 people gathered in a park in Greenwood to protest the shooting ten days before of the activist James Meredith, ambushed in Hernando while marching in support of voter registration. ![]() Just 25 years old, a Howard University philosophy major who turned down a postgraduate scholarship at Harvard to become a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), he was already a prominent voice in the movement. Stokely Carmichael had already served 49 days inside a Mississippi prison farm for nonviolent civil rights activism when he returned to the state in June of 1966. ![]()
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