Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

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.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : Greenwich Entertainment, [2023]

Description:

1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

wide screen

video file

DVD video

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 isn₂t 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.

Subjects:

African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- Lowndes County -- History -- 20th century.

Civil rights movements -- Alabama -- Lowndes County -- History -- 20th century.

African Americans -- Alabama -- Lowndes County -- Politics and government -- 20th century.

Lowndes County (Ala.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.

Lowndes County (Ala.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century.

Genre:

Nonfiction films.

Documentary films.

Other Author:

Gandbhir, Geeta, film director.

Pollard, Sam, film director.