Kwame Ture

Personal Info

Birthday

June 29, 1941

Day of Death

1998-11-15

(57 years old)

Place of Birth

Port of Spain, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago

Also Known As

Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael

Stokely Carmichael

Kwame Ture

Biography

Kwame Ture was a prominent organizer in the civil rights movement in the United States and the global Pan-African movement. Born in Trinidad, he grew up in the United States from the age of 11 and became an activist while attending the Bronx High School of Science.

Known For

Tell Me Lies

Filmography

2023
South to Black Power
as Self
2018
King in the Wilderness
as Self (archive footage)
2011
Mama Africa
as Self (archive footage)
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
as Self (archive footage)
2010
COINTELPRO 101
as Self (archive footage)
2008
Black Power Salute
as Self (archive footage)
2001
A Huey P. Newton Story
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1996
All Power to the People!
as Self (archive footage)
1990
Berkeley in the Sixties
as Self (archive footage)
The FBI's War on Black America
as Self
1974
Black at Yale: A Film Diary
as Himself
1972
Malcolm X
as Self (archive footage)
1970
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)
1968
Black Panthers
as Self
Tell Me Lies
as Party Guest
LBJ
as Self
From Protest to Resistance
as Self
1967
Anatomy of Violence
as Self
Ah, Sunflower
as Self
After Civil Rights... Black Power
as Self