14th 14th annual national become stifle in washington, dc, peniel joseph discuss his biography of stokley carmichael. >> so, we're here to listen to peniel joseph. i had the pleasure of interviewing peniel on c-span on the occasion of the 2010 book, "dark days, bright nights, from black power to barack obama." one of those wonderful, unhurried, c-span book conversations, and i had never met him before, and i was so impressed, not only by his intellect, but by his ease, his humility, and his intro specifics. intro specifics. i left thinking, i'm going to read all of that dude's books, from now on, whatever he writes. he is ward of "waiting until the midnight hour: a narrative history of back pour in america." but the book he has come to discuss today and why i'm sure you're all here iris "stokeley a life" reviewed as an insight. biography of stokley carmichael, the man widely seep at heir apparent to martin luther king and malcolm x, stokley started out as a believer in nonviolence but his open experience led them to concentrate his thinking on notion of black self-defense. carmichael was

see -- were beginning to say this country is coming apart, and in baltimore, which burned badly, stokleyel, who became a communist and went to ghana -- or guinea, he was encouraging the burning and looting, and the governor named agnew called in the civil rights leaders and read them the riot act for not condemning the racial insend areas. he said i condemn all these white i racists. now you have to condemn these guys that are burning down the city. and agnew was known as a liberal governor, a rockefeller man. but he dade tremendous job, and i had notes, and clippings, and i sent those to nixon because i was very impressed with what agnew was doing. and nixon was equally impressed, as we would find out later. and then my alma mater, columbia university, before ail april was out, exploded in the worst violence of any campus in the 1960s. mark rud, you hear about it now. they took over the campus. took over the dean's office. they trashed the dean's office. and it took a week, they finally called the new york -- nypd out to clear the campus. there will brad radicals and white radicals both

14th 14th annual national become stifle in washington, dc, peniel joseph discuss his biography of stokley carmichael. >> so, we're here to listen to peniel joseph. i had the pleasure of interviewing peniel on c-span on the occasion of the 2010 book, "dark days, bright