Carmichael’s public branding as traitor signaled the movement’s collapse.

Evidence

But the incident at Kennedy International Airport disturbed him: That Stokely Carmichael was now widely viewed as a traitor by the press and politicians spoke volumes about the state of the country and of the movement itself. Look where we have so quickly fallen, Baldwin must have thought, and look what has happened to those young men and women who dared to risk everything to save the country. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 97

Categorization

• XREF: This is the pivot moment — the failed reckoning — that the reader’s ‘after times’ thesis needs as evidence.