Known as Kwame Ture until his death in 1998, he was a Trinidadian-American activist in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. He rose to prominence first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party. Initially an integrationist, he later became affiliated with black nationalist and Pan-Africanist movements. He is known for having widely promoted the phrase, "Black Power."

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Known as Kwame Ture until his death in 1998, he was a
Trinidadian-American activist in the 1960s American Civil
Rights Movement. He rose to prominence first as a leader of
the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and
later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther
Party. Initially an integrationist, he later became affiliated with
black nationalist and Pan-Africanist movements. He is known
for having widely promoted the phrase, "Black Power."
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Kwame Ture was a Trinidadian-American civil rights activist who was a leader in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and later the Black Panther Party. He promoted the phrase "Black Power" and became affiliated with black nationalist and Pan-Africanist movements.

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