Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power
Hosted by Zen Peacemakers
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Mar 13, 7:00 PM MDT - Apr 12, 7:00 PM MDT
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$5.49 USD per person
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United States of America, Canada
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About the event
For over 25 years, the Zen Peacemakers have been annually Bearing Witness at Auschwitz/Birkenau. In this spirit, it has long been our desire to create a bearing witness retreat around America’s racial history – as seen through the eyes of African Americans. The intention has always been to engage without becoming a tourist; to seek unity without ‘othering’ those with whom we Bear Witness.
This year we plan on walking the grounds of a deep history in the expansion of slavery, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights movement – Selma and Montgomery.
Your support in viewing this film will help fund our Bearing Witness Retreat in Alabama from April 24 - 29th. Thank you,Zen Peacemakers.
About the film
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.
Genre
Documentary
Runtime
1h 30m
Released
2022
Director
Geeta Gandbhir, Sam Pollard
Producer
Jessica Devaney, Anya Rous, Dema Paxton Fofang
Executive Producer
Jeff Skoll, Diane Weyermann, Fred Grinstein, Linzee Troubh
Crew
Henry Adebonojo, Viridiana Lieberman, Kathryn Bostic