Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)"As in life, the Carmichael in these pages is the definition of charisma and determination. In sharp prose full of Carmichael's candor, wit, irrepressible sense of irony, and undying love for his people, Ready for Revolution relates with clear-eyed intelligence the epic struggle for human liberation in our time. Carmichael - who in 1978 changed his name to Kwame Ture in honor of his mentors, the revolutionary African leaders Kwame Nkrumah and Sekou Toure - recounts the course of his own experience and struggles, ranging from the prison farms and lynch mobs of Mississippi through the firefights and political intrigue of the African liberation wars to Black Power and Pan-Africanism. His transformation from immigrant child to impassioned activist is spellbinding. |
Contents
Collaborators Note | 1 |
Introduction | 5 |
Ancestors and Roots | 11 |
The House at the FortyTwo Steps | 22 |
A Tale of Two Cities | 44 |
A Better Neighborhood | 60 |
Young Manhood | 83 |
Everything and Its Opposite | 110 |
Ten Dollars a Day and All the Sex You Can Handle | 349 |
They Still Didnt Get It | 382 |
The Unforeseen Pitfalls of Success American Style | 414 |
Crisis Chaos Opportunity | 439 |
The Roar of the Panther | 457 |
Magnified Scrutinized Criticized | 484 |
Black Power and Its Consequences | 520 |
Around the World in Eighty Days | 564 |
NAG and the Birth of SNCC | 136 |
NonviolenceApprenticeship in Struggle | 155 |
The Freedom Rides | 178 |
A New Direction | 216 |
To School or Not to School | 241 |
The Hearts and Minds of the Student Body | 250 |
Going Home | 277 |
A Band of Brothers a Circle of Trust | 297 |
Of Marches Coalitions Dreams and Ambulance Chasing | 323 |
Mother Africa and Her Suffering Children | 607 |
In That OP Brier Patch | 639 |
Home to Africa | 680 |
Cancer Brings Out the Best in People | 728 |
A Struggle on Two Fronts | 752 |
Postscript | 783 |
Acknowledgments | 793 |
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