“Saying It Loud: 1966 — The Year Black Power Challenged The Civil Rights Movement” by Mark Whitaker is a book I’m currently reading with rapt attention. In chapter 5 entitled “The Black Panthers of Lowndes County,” Whitaker begins by exploring the death of Adolphus Carmichael, the father of revolutionary civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael. In this book passage, he notes a very interesting sidebar about the elder Carmichael: