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(b. 29 June 1941 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad; d. 15 November 1998 in Conakry, Guinea), radical African-American civil rights leader, a fiery speaker who coined the widely used phrase "black power" and personified the face of black militancy in the 1960s.

Carmichael was the son of Adolphus Carmichael, a carpenter and cab driver, and Mabel Charles, a steamship stewardess.

His parents emigrated from Trinidad to the United States when Carmichael was a toddler.

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Until he was ten or eleven Carmichael was raised by his grandmother; he then joined his parents in Harlem in 1952. The family soon moved to an all-white neighborhood in the Bronx, and he entered the elite Bronx High School of Science, a public school for gifted children.

While still in high school Carmichael heard about the sit-ins at segregated lunch counters in the South and became inspired to join the movement for racial equality.

He rejected scholarships from several mostly