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Bloody Lowndes : Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt by Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Hasan Jeffries is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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Winner of the 2010 Clinton Jackson Coley Award for the best book on local history from the Alabama Historical Association Early in 1966, African Americans in rural Lowndes County, Alabama, aided by activists from the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), established an all-black, independent political party called the Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO). The group, whose ballot symbol was a snarling black panther, was formed in part to protest the barriers to black enfranchisement that had for decades kept every single African American of voting age off the county's registration books. Even after the passage of the Voting Rights Act, most African Americans in this overwhelmingly black county remained too scared even to try to register. Their fear stemmed from the county's long, bloody history of whites retaliating against blacks who strove to exert the freedom granted to them after the Civil War. Amid this environment of intimidation and disempowerment, African Americans in Lowndes County viewed the LCFO as the best vehicle for concrete change. Their radical experiment in democratic politics inspired black people throughout the country, from SNCC organizer Stoke

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Author

Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Hasan Jeffries

Publisher

New York University Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814743058

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, Social Science, Fiction

Rating

4.17 / 5 (64 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13