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 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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