Kwame Ture

1941 - 1998 (age 57) • Acting

Born: 6/29/1941 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago

Died: 11/15/1998 (age 57)

Known for: Acting

Kwame Ture

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

Black Panthers

71%

Self

1968

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

75%

Self (archive footage)

2011

LBJ

59%

Self

1968

Mama Africa

56%

Self (archive footage)

2011

Helter Skelter: An American Myth

67%

Self (archive footage)

2020

All Power to the People!

63%

Self (archive footage)

1996

The Fall

72%

1969

70 Years of Youth Revolt

72%

Self (archive footage)

2020

South to Black Power

35%

Self

2023

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

76%

Self - Activist (archive footage)

2021

70 Years of Youth Revolt

72%

Self (archive footage)

2020

Helter Skelter: An American Myth

67%

Self (archive footage)

2020

King in the Wilderness

70%

Self (archive footage)

2018

Algiers, the Mecca of Revolutionaries (1962-1974)

100%

Self

2016

Mama Africa

56%

Self (archive footage)

2011

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

75%

Self (archive footage)

2011

COINTELPRO 101

Self (archive footage)

2010

Black Power Salute

Self (archive footage)

2008

A Huey P. Newton Story

54%

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2001

All Power to the People!

63%

Self (archive footage)

1996

Berkeley in the Sixties

60%

Self (archive footage)

1990

The FBI's War on Black America

80%

Self

1990

Black at Yale: A Film Diary

80%

Himself

1974

Malcolm X

67%

Self (archive footage)

1972

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

73%

Self (archive footage)

1970

Stokely Carmichael On Police Shootings, Black Nationalism and Developing a White Base

The Fall

72%

1969

Black Panthers

71%

Self

1968

Huey!

1968

Tell Me Lies

64%

Party Guest

1968

From Protest to Resistance

Self

1968

Revolution Underway

1968

LBJ

59%

Self

1968

Anatomy of Violence

Self

1967

Ah, Sunflower

Self

1967

After Civil Rights... Black Power

Self

1967