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From Trinidad at the age of 11, Carmichael left with his family for New York City. His parents encouraged him to succeed by excelling in school and, in 1956; he won admission to the selective Bronx High School of Science. In 1960, while attending Howard University, he joined a group affiliated with the student-led Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). While participating in the civil rights movement, Carmichael also continued his academic studies, graduating from Howard in 1964, with a degree in philosophy. After leaving college, Carmichael became a field secretary for SNCC, and worked in the campaign to register blacks in Mississippi to vote. In 1965 Carmichael moved to Alabama to work in the voting rights campaign and helped organize the Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO). It became known as the Black Panther Party. His success in attracting black support for the LCFO led to his election as chairperson of SNCC. In February 1968 Carmichael became Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party that had been organized in Oakland, California. Carmichael began to disagree with some Black Panther members; because of these ideological differences, Carmichael resigned from the Black Panther Party in 1969. The same year, Carmichael began to work in Africa and eventually changed his name to Kwame Тигй (or Тоигй). Carmichael became a proponent of Pan Africanism, the belief that African people throughout the world should unite. He became a member of the Central Committee of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party and continued to work with this international group during the 1970s and afterwards. In 1969 he established his permanent home in Guinea although he returned occasionally to the United States to lecture. In November of 1998, Kwame Тигй died at his home. Reference: Africana The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience Editors: Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr. Copyright 1999 ISBN 0-465-0071-1
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