As chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Carmichael gained national attention and inspired media backlash when he issued the call for Black Power in Greenwood, Mississippi, in June 1966. Gordon Parks' 1967 Life magazine essay "Whip of Black Power" is a nuanced profile of the young, controversial civil rights leader Stokely Carmichael.
Carmichael’s own voice is represented through a reproduction of his important essay “What We Want” from September 1966.A nuanced profile, in image and text, of the great Black Power leader at the exhilarating moment of the movement's ascendancy Essays by Lisa Volpe and Cedric Johnson shed critical new light on the subject: Volpe explores Parks’ complex understanding of the movement and its leader, and Johnson frames Black Power within the heightened social and political moment of the late 1960s. Stokely Carmichael and Black Power delves into Parks’ groundbreaking presentation of Carmichael, and provides a detailed analysis of his images and accompanying text about the charismatic leader. In his finely draw n sketch of a leader and a movement, Parks reveals his own advocacy of Black Power and its message of self-determination and love. Parks’ photos and writing addressed Carmichael’s intelligence and humor in equal measure, presenting the whole man behind the headline-making speeches. Parks, on contract with Life, shadowed him from the fall of 1966 to the spring of 1967, as Carmichael gave speeches, headed meetings and promoted the growing Black Power movement.
Gordon Parks’ 1967 Life magazine essay “Whip of Black Power” is a nuanced profile of the young and controversial civil rights leader Stokely Carmichael.
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