Stokely Carmichael’s “Black Power” speech, was a major contributor in the african american civil rights movement.  Many other events were also influential to Carmichael’s speech. This speech helped to set in motion many of the protests in California. In his speech, Carmichael talks to the students at the university about a variety of different topics from racism to the institution of war and politics in  America. Throughout his speech Carmichael also institutes a number of references to the african american culture and stereotype. These stereo types helped to make his speech have more power to his listeners. This was helped by a numerous amount of other speeches of the time and later works of literature like  Garrett Felber’s “Harlem is the Black World