Geeta Gandbhir and Sam Pollard go beyond the headlines and well-know figures to unearth a broader context of civil rights action in the documentary 'Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power.'
Focusing their lens on grassroots organizing in Lowndes — a county so structurally and physically violent towards its Black residents that it is referred to as “Bloody Lowndes”— “MLK/FBI”filmmaker Gandbhir decentralize the kind of mythos that has surrounded civil rights activists of the time. What they offer instead is a collective history of a majority Black-led movement in Lowndes County that fought for civic power for its Black residents.
Placing us in the midst of the fight for civil rights, we learn that in 1965 Lowndes county was 80% Black but had zero Black individuals registered to vote. We learn of the exploitative practice of sharecropping and how it effectively replaced the function of slavery in the Alabama region. The focus here is SNCC — the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee — and, within that, the constellation of activists, civic figures and residents that formed the social environment of Lowndes county.
It’s a specificity that is more than welcome — certainly, what Pollard and Gandbhir achieve with their film is a sharp focus not just on collective action, but a method of storytelling that is exacting and in its look at a precise moment of previously overlooked political history. It’s a reminder that history demands retelling and revisiting, and that the work of the struggle must be regenerative and, above all, interconnected.
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