Born in Trinidad in the Caribbean, he grew up in the United States from the age of 11 and became an activist while attending the Bronx High School of Science. Like most young people in the SNCC, he became disillusioned with the two-party system after the Democratic National Convention failed to recognize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party as official delegates from the state. Carmichael eventually decided to develop independent all-black political organizations, such as the Lowndes County Freedom Organization and, for a time, the national Black Panther Party.
Inspired by Malcolm X 's example, he articulated a philosophy of black power , and popularized it both by provocative speeches and more sober writings. Carmichael became one of the most popular and controversial Black leaders of the late s. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover secretly identified Carmichael as the man most likely to succeed Malcolm X as America's "black messiah".
He reestablished himself in Ghana , and then Guinea by Ture died of prostate cancer in at the age of Carmichael was born in Port of Spain , Trinidad and Tobago.
He attended Tranquility School before moving to Harlem , New York City , in at the age of 11, to rejoin his parents. They had migrated to the United States when he was two, and he was raised by his grandmother and two aunts. His mother, Mabel R. Carmichael, [ 6 ] was a stewardess for a steamship line. His father, Adolphus, was a carpenter who also worked as a taxi driver. According to a interview Carmichael gave to Life Magazine , he was the only black member of the Morris Park Dukes, a youth gang involved in alcohol and petty theft.
Carmichael attended the Bronx High School of Science in New York from , being selected through high achievement on its standardized entrance examination.
