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The structure and organization of the text cater to the reader's needs to connect, understand and interpret the full picture. Also, it appears that the order of the speeches aims to demonstrate Stokely's development of ideas and the progression of his efforts and initiatives.

It appears that the essays are arranged in the order in which they occurred for the reader to be in tune with a timeline and the events of those times. What we have here is a collection of essays and speeches written and delivered by Stokely Carmichael. That's what this book is and the messages in this text are so very crucial and critical for us to grasp, comprehend and align with. It means that there is something about it that can't wait. The key word is "important." When something is important, it means that some aspect of it needs prompt and immediate attention. This is, quite possibly, one of the most important books one could ever read. In these essays on racism, Black Power, the pitfalls of conventional liberalism, and solidarity with the oppressed masses and freedom fighters of all races and creeds, Carmichael addresses questions that still confront the black world and points to a need for an ideology of black and African liberation, unification, and transformation. He was concerned not only with racism and exploitation, but with cultural integrity and the colonization of Africans in America.

Unique in his belief that the destiny of African Americans could not be separated from that of oppressed people the world over, Carmichael's Black Power principles insisted that blacks resist white brainwashing and redefine themselves. In the speeches and articles collected in this book, the black activist, organizer, and freedom fighter Stokely Carmichael traces the dramatic changes in his own consciousness and that of black Americans that took place during the evolving movements of Civil Rights, Black Power, and Pan-Africanism.