![]() The resulting Life profile of Carmichael, called “The Whip of Black Power,” was published in May 1967. The two men would be put together to chronicle a speaking trip that ran through the spring of 1967. ![]() His assignment-whether it was actually voiced or not-was to illuminate through his work Black issues and interests to a largely White readership. His lens had already captured both Malcom X and Muhammad Ali. And the only Black man taking pictures for the then-dominating national periodical Life magazine, where he often chronicled the Black experience. ![]() The latter was a phrase he didn’t invent, but popularized in speeches filled with strength and urgency.Ī generation removed from Carmichael, Gordon Parks was a 53-year-old essayist and photographer. ![]() Recently elected as the Chair for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), he set out on a travel campaign to spread the message of social justice of Black Power. ![]()
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