We invite you to join us for Part I in a free series of four African American history–related documentary film screenings presented by professor of music, Mark Burford. Admission is free. 

Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power (2022)
Directed by Sam Pollard and Geeta Gandbhir

Passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act marked opened a new chapter of the civil rights movement. Nowhere was this better epitomized than in Lowndes County, Alabama, a rural, impoverished town that was eighty percent Black but had zero Black voters. 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 the emergence of Black Power in Lowndes County.

Trailer
Film website

Additional events in this series:
September 27: The New Black (2013)
October 11: Silver Dollar Road (2023)
November 1: Attica (2021)