Mukasa (Willie Ricks), appeared in Los Angeles in February 2005. Please tune in to hear what Mukasa had to say about the way African Americans were and are treated in America, and some possible solutions.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., called Willie Ricks ?The fiery orator of SNCC? in his 1967 ?Where Do We Go From Here?.
James Forman said the following about Willie Ricks:
?Willie Ricks must rank as one of those unknown heroes who captured the mood of history. In calling for Black Power, he caught the essence of the spirit, moving Black people in the United States and around the world who were poor, Black, and without power?.
In 1966, during the Meredith March across Mississippi, Willie Ricks, then a young field secretary and Central Committee member of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, first popularized the slogan, ?Black Power? that became the rallying cry for the militant Black community rebellions that shook this country to its foundations. Mukasa?s introduction of the ?Black Power? demand was indicative of the leadership that he has provided in the course of over 35 years of courageous struggle on behalf of poor and working African people. Beginning as a student organizer in Tennessee, where he and his family were targeted by the Klan with cross burnings and gunfire at their home, Ricks has fought on the front lines of the struggle for black freedom.
In 1966, he was a major organizer of the ?Black Power March?, which spanned from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi. This march started out as the ?March Against Fear?, but changed to the ?Black Power March?, after James Meredith was shot. The slogan ?Black Power? is often associated with Brother Mukasa because he was a major force in popularizing it throughout the South, from the urban to the rural areas.
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