Stokely Carmichael Released from Jail

Civil rights leader Stokely Carmichael gestures as he leaves jail in 1967. Carmichael, who headed the Student Nonviolent National Council from 1966-67 and founded the Lowndes County Freedom Organization, estimates that he was arrested about 30 times during his years of activism.

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