![]() Instead he angrily denounced the philosophies of integration and nonviolence that Dr. King condemn the very thing that Carmichael was there to promote-Black Power (Lee A7).īut if Stokely Carmichael was disappointed by the turnout that Sunday evening, he didn’t show it. King had attracted a crowd best described as a fire hazard: nearly 15,000 people had crammed into an auditorium designed to seat 12,000 to hear Dr. and his address from the same stage just weeks earlier. ![]() This was the fourth, and as he looked out at over 11,000 empty seats, he might have thought of Dr. He had only been in Detroit for 24 hours and had already been asked to speak on three separate occasions (Strickland 8A). ![]() Stokely Carmichael must have been exhausted, and maybe a little defeated, standing before a relatively meager gathering of 600 inside Detroit’s massive Cobo Hall on J(Strickland 8A). ![]() Purloined Black Power: Carmichael at Cobo Hall ![]()
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