After her MA she embarked on an academic career, teaching English literature and creative writing. She worked at Texas Southern University
from 1955 to 1957, then from 1957 to 1964 at her own alma mater,...
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June 1966: On a civil rights march through the Mississippi...
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June 1966
On a civil rights march through the Mississippi Delta in the USA, activist Stokely Carmichael
coined the new slogan Black Power.
