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STOKELY CARMICHAEL AND BLACK POWER - GORDON PAR...

Gordon Parks' 1967 Life magazine essay Whip of Black Power is a nuanced profile of the young
and controversial civil rights leader Stokely Carmichael. 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. 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. Parks' photos and
writing addressed Carmichael's intelligence and humor in equal measure  presenting the whole
man behind the headline-making speeches. 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.
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. 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. Carmichael's own
voice is represented through a reproduction of his important essay What We Want from September
1966. Co-published by The Gordon Parks Foundation and the Museum of Fine Arts  Houston

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