On April 14, 1970, the radical Black power leader Stokely Carmichael declared: “I have never admired a White man, but the greatest of them was Hitler.”
Shortly thereafter the media began to refer to him as "Rocky the Revolutionary", and he was often considered to be Canada's Stokely Carmichael.
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Brown recorded it in 1967 in response to increasing criticism of the Vietnam War by black leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Stokely Carmichael.
She has treated such celebrities as Stokely Carmichael, who she diagnosed with cancer, and was the attending physician at Tupac Shakur’s first shooting.
She was a teacher and mentor to the young people of SNCC, highly influencing the thinking of such important figures as Julian Bond, Diane Nash, Stokely Carmichael, Curtis Muhammad, Bob Moses, and Bernice Johnson Reagon, who wrote a song in Baker's honor, called "Ella's Song".