Askia Toure

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=Askia Toure=

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Askia Toure (formerly Roland Snellings) was an important figure in the rise of the Black Power Movement and the Black Arts movement. In addition to providing Leroi Jones with many of the Black Powers' ideologies in art and literature, he wrote the SNCC's (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) "Black Power Position Paper," and he was the contributed to several literary magazines in the mid 1960's: The Umbra, the Liberator, and Freedomways.