Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power Screening
Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power Screening
African American Museum of Iowa
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: 55 12th Avenue SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52401
Phone: (319) 862-2101
Join the AAMI for a free screening of Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power! This documentary explores the story of the citizens of Lowndes County Alabama who faced violence and oppression while trying to achieve the right to vote.
“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.”