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African Americans Alabama Lowndes County Politics and government 20th century African Americans Civil rights African Americans Politics and government Alabama Lowndes County Civil rights movements Civil rights movements Alabama Lowndes County History 20th century Lowndes County (Ala.) Politics and government 20th century Lowndes County (Ala.) Race relations History 20th century Politics and government Race relationsSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023