Disparaging Stokely Carmichael, Bill Clinton attacks the black freedom struggle

Pushback with Aaron Maté At the funeral for John Lewis, former president Bill Clinton disparaged Stokely Carmichael’s (later Kwame Ture) leadership role in the black freedom struggle of the 1960s. “There were two or three years there where the movement went a little bit too far towards Stokely,“ Clinton said, “But in the end, John Lewis prevailed.“ Dr. Peniel Joseph, professor at University of Texas at Austin and author of “Stokely: A Life“, responds to Clinton’s comments and discusses Carmichael/Ture’s l
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