kwame ture has taken them and he becomes kwame ture. >> host: what part of the civil rights movement was he involved in? >> guest: is involved in all of it. and that is what is so interesting. when you think about stokely carmichael, he's involved in every major action between 1960 and 1965 with the whole period of civil rights cut in half. he is a demonstrator and involved in the nonviolent coordinating committee and he is a freedom rider and he's arrested on june 8, 1961, and mississippi. it's been weeks and penitentiaries. he is a howard university student activists and part of this group called the nonviolent action group and he spent time in mississippi every single summer or he's working with sharecroppers and young people and is working on voter registration. and in 1964 he is one of the project directors of the second congressional district in the mississippi delta. so he is really just an extraordinary activist. he is part of the christian leadership conference after montgomery. stokely carmichael and his coworkers going to lawrence county, alabama. a county in the black bel

. >> host: in april of 1998, c-span interview it kwame ture a few months before he died and he talked about the fbi. since his use and on the record that the fbi may have given you this cancer. >> i'm certain they did. the fbi is well advanced in germ and chemical warfare, extremely it fenced and no questions that after the assassination of martin luther king they themselves claimed in their intelligence magazines they had to change the method of eliminating what they considered to be leaders and of course germ and chemical warfare is one of the best ways to do it. >> any number of ways. we say jokingly that if in the 1600s indians could get smallpox by osmosis they could give us cancer with laser beams. of course germ and chemical warfare. >> is the fbi watching now all the time? >> host: did the fbi watch stokely carmichael? >> guest: absolutely. they had a counterintelligence program that had initially been started in 1950s and to really watch the verses, it was anti-communist. it quickly becomes something that is used to provide surveillance over civil rights activists, pro-democr

is kwame ture he began to feel it is nothing more than hypocrisy. -- youwhat in your mind can teach useminars on this one question, but what are the most misunderstood things all these years later about stokely carmichael? >> one is that he is just an angry young man. two, that he is somehow antiwhite. stokely has huge interracial relationships. never against white people. finally that his call for black power disrupted the civil rights movement. it really didn't disrupt the civil rights movement. it spoke truth to power to what so many people are feeling. also in the international arena. is onestokely carmichael of the most underappreciated, misunderstood, undervalued personalities this country has produced, and thankfully peniel e. joseph is changing that for us. read this text. gone through it. i highly recommend it for a better understanding of this great american. thanks for being on this program. >> great to be here. >> coming up, country singer martina mcbride. martina mcbride is one of country music's most successful stars with 14 grammy nominations to her credit. she has also

>> milissa, he moves to guinea in west africa and becomes kwame it is ture after the presidents in ghanao make the argument he's organizing for a pan-african revolution. and he is, but certainly he loses the national celebrity he had gotten in the late 1960s. and his politics become more narrower because he's arguing that he has really the answers to this question, this conundrum of revolution. so certainly he's not going to be the same kind of icon by the time he moves to africa. >>> thank you for the correction on his name and for a great book. one of the producers read it and said he loved it. author of "stokely a life." thank you for watching this sunday afternoon. we'll be back next weekend at 2:00 p.m. eastern time, but first, "disrupt with karen finney" own the latest on the missing malaysian plane an the crisis in ukraine. have a great evening. ag [ mom ] when we're having this much fun, why quit? and new bounty has no quit in it either. it's 2x more absorbent than the leading ordinary brand, and then stays strong, so you can use less. watch how one sheet of new bounty keeps work