{"id":888,"date":"2020-09-02T18:58:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T18:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/?p=888"},"modified":"2026-02-11T22:47:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:47:47","slug":"stokely-carmichael-kwame-ture-at-colorado-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2020\/09\/02\/stokely-carmichael-kwame-ture-at-colorado-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Stokely Carmichael \/ Kwame Ture at Colorado College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Spike Lee&#8217;s 2018 film <em>BlacKkKlansman,\u00a0<\/em>based on Ron Stallworth\u2019s memoir <em>Black Klansman<\/em> (Flatiron Books, 2018), the Colorado College Black Student Union invites Stokely Carmichael (also known as Kwame Ture) to speak on campus in the early 1970s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/catalystsept151911colo\/page\/n251\/mode\/2up\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-889\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2020\/09\/Carmichael1979-150x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2020\/09\/Carmichael1979-150x300.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2020\/09\/Carmichael1979.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Did that really happen?<\/p>\n<p>YES! But not exactly in the way the film suggests.<\/p>\n<p>In real life, Carmichael \/ Ture visited Colorado Springs in 1977 and spoke at Bell\u2019s Nightingale Club. According to the memoir, Stallworth attended that event, but it was not connected to CC in any official or documented way.<\/p>\n<p>Two years later, the Black Student Union at CC sponsored a visit. Carmichael \/ Ture spoke on campus in the lounge of Bemis Hall on April 12, 1979.\u00a0 One local newspaper (the Colorado Springs <em>Sun<\/em>) described his subject as \u201cThe Plight of African People in America and What Must Be Done&#8221;; the CC student newspaper (the <em>Catalyst<\/em>) gave the title as &#8220;College Students and the American Socio-Economic Order.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/catalystsept13191819colo\/page\/n423\/mode\/2up\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-890 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2020\/09\/Carmichael1986-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2020\/09\/Carmichael1986-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2020\/09\/Carmichael1986.jpg 497w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Seven years after that, the Black Student Union invited Carmichael \/ Ture to campus again. He spoke at on April 22, 1986 in Packard Hall.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Spike Lee&#8217;s 2018 film BlacKkKlansman,\u00a0based on Ron Stallworth\u2019s memoir Black Klansman (Flatiron Books, 2018), the Colorado College Black Student Union invites Stokely Carmichael (also known as Kwame Ture) to speak on campus in the early 1970s. Did that really happen? YES! But not exactly in the way the film suggests. 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