Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power
Bears tremendous resonance today...absolutely vital.
Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power
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 isn’t a story of hope but of action. Through first person accounts and searing archival footage, LOWNDES COUNTY AND THE ROAD TO BLACK POWER 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.
Genre
Documentary,
History,
African-American Experience,
Justice,
Democracy
Web Site
Runtime
90
Language
English
Director
Sam Pollard,
Geeta Gandbhir
Producer
Anya Rous,
Jessica Devaney,
Dema Paxton Fofang
Writer(s)
Dema Paxton Fofang
FEATURED REVIEW
Patricia Aufderheide, Documentary Magazine
PA: Several Tribeca films demonstrated the power of storytelling to rewrite historical narratives. Geeta Gandbhir and Sam Pollard’s 'Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power' not only revives but electrifies a too-long-hidden story about voting rights in the rural county right outside Montgomery ...
Played at
Monica Film Center 12.02.22 - 12.08.22
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