Lowndes County and the road to Black power / a Peacock original ; Participant presents a Multitude Films production, in association with the Atlantic ; a film by Geeta Gandbhir & Sam Pollard ; directed by Sam Pollard & Greeta Gandbhir ; produced by Anya Rous & Jessica Devaney ; producer, Dema Paxton Fofang ; written by Dema Paxton Fofang.
Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King Jr., Ella Baker. Originally released as a motion picture in 2022. Wide screen.
Summary:
The passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 represented not the culmination of the Civil Rights Movement, but the beginning of a new, crucial chapter. Nowhere was this next battle better epitomized than in Lowndes County, Alabama, a rural, impoverished county with a vicious history of racist terrorism. In a county that was 80 percent Black but had zero Black voters, laws were just paper without power. This isnâ‚‚t a story of hope but of action. Through first person accounts and searing archival footage, it tells the story of the local movement and young Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizers who fought not just for voting rights, but for Black Power in Lowndes County.
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