Person

Kwame Ture

Acting · 1941–1998 · Port of Spain, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago

Biography

Kwame Ture was a prominent organizer in the civil rights movement in the United States and the global Pan-African movement. Born in Trinidad, he grew up in the United States from the age of 11 and became an activist while attending the Bronx High School of Science.

Known for

Filmography

2024Hollywood BlackSelf (archive footage)
2023South to Black PowerSelf
2021Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)Self - Activist (archive footage)
202070 Years of Youth RevoltSelf (archive footage)
2020Helter Skelter: An American MythSelf (archive footage)
2018King in the WildernessSelf (archive footage)
2016Algiers, the Mecca of Revolutionaries (1962-1974)Self
2011Mama AfricaSelf (archive footage)
2011The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975Self (archive footage)
2010COINTELPRO 101Self (archive footage)
2008Black Power SaluteSelf (archive footage)
2001A Huey P. Newton StorySelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
1996All Power to the People!Self (archive footage)
1990Berkeley in the SixtiesSelf (archive footage)
1990The FBI's War on Black AmericaSelf
1988American ExperienceSelf (archive footage)
1974Black at Yale: A Film DiaryHimself
1972Malcolm XSelf (archive footage)
1970King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to MemphisSelf (archive footage)
1969The Fall
1968Black PanthersSelf
1968Huey!
1968Tell Me LiesParty Guest
1968From Protest to ResistanceSelf
1968Revolution Underway
1968LBJSelf
1967Anatomy of ViolenceSelf
1967Ah, SunflowerSelf
1967After Civil Rights... Black PowerSelf
1966Stokely Carmichael Press Conference
1963World in Action
1959The David Susskind ShowSelf
—Stokely Carmichael On Police Shootings, Black Nationalism and Developing a White Base

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