And Stokely Car, Stokely Carmichael caught on and started sayin’, “black power.” He started marchin’ up and down the line, talkin’ ’bout, “Come on you all, sing.” You know, everybody was just droopin’ on down ahead of me. And we were all in the back singin’ this, “We need black power, power,” and then everybody caught on in the middle, and that’s where Stokely was. And the hill, “black power” like they caught on for some reason, like a spark, just like that. And this little boy, who was around ’bout twelve years old, he decided somewhere in the back of his little mind, he said, “We need black power, power, Lord, we,” and they would sing, “We need brown power, pow,” and then, and he, well he kept on sayin’ “We need black power, power.” And then, all of a sudden, everybody started to say, everybody else talkin ’bout power, all this power, you know. We need power in our minds, you know, not to give up. We need more power, power, Lord.” And we was just talkin’ ’bout power to get on, uh, you know we need power in our legs, you know, to go on walkin’.

And I was close to the end, and, uh, we singin’ “We need more power, power, Lord. And I, they had newsmen all around, but Stokely wasn’t in there, he was back there in the middle, you know, with the rest of us. And Martin Luther King and all the big leaders, and everything, was at the front of the march, you know. And Stokely Carmichael was a field marshal even though he was head of his organization he was just, he was just like a marshal, keepin’ everyone in line, and everything. , uh, have given Stokely Carmichael the credit for “black power.” Stokely Carmichael was a total unknown except to, for the people who were in the Snick organization in Atlanta. Speaker is from Memphis, TN she is a 23-year-old black woman with a college education.

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