“Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power,

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We look at “Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power,” a remarkable new documentary that shows how a small rural

community in Alabama organized during the civil rights movement to challenge white supremacy and systematic disenfranchisement of Black residents, and would become, in some ways, the first iteration of the Black Panther Party. Lowndes County went from having no registered Black voters in 1960 — despite being 80% Black — to being the birthplace in 1965 of the Lowndes County Freedom Organization, a radical political party that brought together grassroots activists and members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Co-directors Sam Pollard and Geeta Gandbhir tell Democracy Now! the Lowndes County story has not gotten the attention it deserves compared to other chapters of the civil rights movement, in part because its lessons are “more threatening” to the political establishment. “It seems like it has been deliberately left out of the narrative of history,” says Gandbhir. We also speak with Reverend Wendell Paris, a former SNCC field secretary featured in the film, who says the organizing in Lowndes County reflected an understanding by residents that “they needed to band together to defend themselves.”

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"The gift of Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power... is how it positions voting rights as the beginning of

the struggle, not the end — a lesson that gets lost in the clamor around present-day electoral politics. Once Black Lowndes residents were able to vote, they organized to get people from the community into elected positions within the county. Watching the SNCC and Lowndes County Christian Movement for Human Rights employ tactics to help their community is nothing short of incredible. When the state Democratic Party refused to recognize their candidates, they created their own party, the Lowndes County Freedom Organization, and logo — a black panther."

- Hollywood Reporter

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