Third World Newsreel, in collaboration with the Documentary Forum at CCNY,  will present a free screening of 

Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power 

 - in person! RSVP to Eventbrite for the February 15th 6:30 PM event!  This will be at Shepard Hall, City College of New York, 140th Street and Convent Avenue.  For more info: workshop@twn.org



JT Takagi, Third World Newsreel and the Documentary Forum at CCNY

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.

Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power

Directors Geeta Gandbhir and Sam Pollard

#1 to 137th Street, ABCD to 145th Street and there is street parking.  Light refreshments provided. City College does require registering your vaccine status to enter the campus buildings, please self-register by visiting:  https://www.c4wrk.com/ytST2qjjBM6DGMWKA
If you are not vaccinated, you should wear a mask, otherwise, masks are optional.