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. 2022, USA, 90 minutes

A post-film discussion panel will include Congressman Mondaire Jones; Anya Rous, Vice President of Multitude Films (producers); Perry Grossman, Director of the Voting Rights Project at the New York Civil Liberties Union; and Willie Trotman, President of the Spring Valley Branch of the NAACP.

Thank you to our Community Sponsors: Rockland Coalition to End the New Jim Crow, The Nyack Center and The Spring Valley NAACP:

We advise purchasing tickets online in advance for this screening in case of strong interest, however there is an additional ticketing fee of $1.48 imposed by the ticket service for advance sale tickets. The discount can also be applied at the door, which will open at 7:30.

Additional information on this screening and a link to the ticket sales page is on our website: https://rivertownfilm.org/lowndes-county-and-the-road-to-black-power/
Our Community Partners will be acknowledged on this page soon.

Here is the ticket sales page that you can link to directly if you prefer. https://rivertownfilm.eventive.org/schedule/63af6fe9e1815800633e1cd5

On the ticket page when you select “order” you are taken to the “checkout” page. At the bottom of the checkout page is a question that asks “Have a discount code?” When you select that link it allows you to put in the code (Lowndes) and then click “apply.” Then when you select the number of tickets to buy, the price automatically shows the discount. In order to purchase tickets it is also necessary to “open an account,” which simply means entering a name and email address. Purchasing will obviously require a credit card.

I’m including a graphic suitable for online use, a flyer better for printing, and a photograph from Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power.

Thank you again for helping connect the community to this screening. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Matthew Seig, executive director of Rivertown Film Society