Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power

Fri 12/2 7pm: Q&A with Directors Sam Pollard, Geeta Gandbhir and Producers Anya Rous, Jess Devaney and Dema Paxton Fofang, moderated by The Atlantic's Vann R. Newkirk II, followed by a reception. Sat 12/3 1pm: Q&A with Producers Anya Rous and Dema Paxton Fofang. Sat 12/3 6:30pm: Q&A with Director Geeta Gandbhir, Producers Anya Rous and Dema Paxton Fofang, moderated by Dara Messinger, co-presented by the Center for Constitutional Rights. 

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 town with a vicious history of racist terrorism. In a town that was eighty 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.