Carmichael, Stokely

Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-98, African-American social activist, b. Trinidad. He lived in New York City after 1952 and graduated from Howard Univ. in 1964. Carmichael participated in the Congress of Racial Equality's "freedom rides" in 1961, and by 1964 was a field organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Alabama. As SNCC chair in 1966, he ejected more moderate leaders and set off a storm of controversy by calling for "black power," a concept he elaborated in a 1967 book (with C. Hamilton). His increasingly separatist politics isolated him from most of the civil-rights movement, and he emigrated to Conakry, Guinea, in 1969. There he spent the rest of his life, calling himself a pan-African revolutionary but largely relegated to the political fringe. He changed his name to Kwame Ture, and was briefly married to the singer Miriam Makeba. His memoir Ready for Revolution was posthumously published in 2003.

Carmichael is a Scottish clan, from the village of Carmichael, in South Lanarkshire, Scottish Lowlands, United Kingdom. It is also the name of a family from the west coast of Scotland, from the Gaelic MacGillemichael, meaning son of the servant of Michael, these Carmichaels are part of the Stewarts of Appin.

Several people have had the surname Carmichael:

• Alexander Carmichael, collector and author of Carmina Gadelica
• Alistair Carmichael, Scottish Liberal Democratic politician
• Amy Carmichael, missionary to Tamil Nadu, India
• Chris Carmichael, cycling trainer for Lance Armstrong and others
• Chris Carmichael (musician)
• Colin Carmichael, Green Party of Ontario candidate for the electoral district of Cambridge in the 2007 Provincial General Election
• Franklin Carmichael, Canadian artist
• Gershom Carmichael, Scottish philosopher
• Greg Carmichael, English guitarist
• Harold Carmichael, played for the American football team, the Philadelphia Eagles
• Hoagy Carmichael, American musician
• Ian Carmichael, British actor
• James Carmichael (disambiguation), several notable people
• James Carmichael a veterinarian
• Jesse Carmichael, keyboardist and backing singer of Maroon 5, a rock band from Los Angeles.
• John Carmichael, British soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Leonard Carmichael, American educator, associated with Tufts University
• Nelson Carmichael, American Olympic freestyle skier
• Ricky Carmichael, professional motocross racer
• Robert Daniel Carmichael, American mathematician
• Sandy Carmichael, Scottish rugby player who also played for the British Lions
• Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian/American Black activist
• Susie Carmichael, fictional character from the nickelodeon TV series Rugrats and All Grown Up!

Carmichael may also refer to:

• Carmichael, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Carmichael No. 109, Saskatchewan, Rural municipality in Saskatchewan.
• Carmichael, California, United States
• Carmichael number, a special kind of number in number theory named for mathematician Robert Carmichael
• Carmichael (crater), a lunar crater
• Carmichael, South Lanarkshire, a village in Scotland