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Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him.
Stokely Carmichael
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Stokely Carmichael
Age: 57 †
Born: 1941
Born: January 29
Died: 1998
Died: November 15
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Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael
Kwame Ture
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