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Coming Out of Lowndes County

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Election day in November 1966 was what the Lowndes County Freedom Organization had been working towards. It was the first… Read More

Going Into Lowndes County

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 SNCC first made contact in Lowndes County, Alabama in March 1965 during the march from Selma to Montgomery. There was… Read More

Lowndes County Freedom Party (LCFP)

The southern civil rights struggle is full of ironies. In Alabama, the illiteracy rate was so high that state law required political parties to have a visual symbol. The Democratic… Read More

Situated between Selma and Montgomery, Lowndes County was at the heart of Alabama’s Black Belt. Everything about Lowndes County was rural. In 1960, the county’s largest town, Fort Deposit, had… Read More

Lowndes County Freedom Organization becomes Lowndes County Freedom Party Events

In Alabama, candidates for elected office who belong to a political party must be nominated at their party’s convention at a public polling site. Having formed a political party, the… Read More

Lowndes County Freedom Organization founded Events

After years of organizing to gain voting rights in Mississippi, Southwest Georgia, and other parts of the southern Black Belt, SNCC was well aware of white supremacist control of political… Read More

SNCC’s voter education efforts in Lowndes Events

When SNCC’s Courtland Cox asked, “Why complain about police brutality when you can be the sheriff yourself?” he struck a nerve with the Black residents of Lowndes County. His question… Read More

SNCC makes contact in Lowndes County Events

Many SNCC activists were skeptical when, following the murder of Jimmy Lee Jackson in Marion, Alabama, SCLC proposed a protest march to the state capitol in Montgomery. Stokely Carmichael predicted… Read More