Lowndes County

The Civil Rights Movement had achieved several major goals in the early 1960’s under leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Ella Baker, and Phillip Randolph, just to name a few. Their methods of non-violent protest demonstrations and litigation led to desegregation in schools and in public transportation. Despite these successes, African Americans soon realized that these nonviolent boycotts and litigation processes did little to alter their daily lives and racial violence still ensued. Between…

March 7, 1965, has been named in history as Bloody Sunday for the tragic and important event in the Civil Rights Movement. On this Sunday in Selma, Alabama, around 525 African Americans gathered at Browns Chapel in order to march for their right to vote. They planned to march from Browns Chapel in Selma to Montgomery which is an at least a fifty mile march. The marchers were trying to go to Montgomery in order to see Governor Wallace. They wanted to tell him that they wanted the right to…

the civil rights movement. Member of SNCC felt that King’s nonviolence approach was not working as fast as they would have liked. According to an article from the New York Times “The first SNCC project to promote the slogan “black power” was the Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO) an African-American electoral organization which registered over 2,500 black voters between 1965 and 1969” (Kaufman, 1998) In 1966, SNCC elected Stokely Carmichael as chairman and head of SNCC. During…

First, the Civil Rights Movement began. This movement took place between the years of 1947 and 1968. During the Civil Rights Movement, one of the most famous and influential icons was the Notable Dr. Martin Luther King, who coined the phrase “Non-violent”, a testimony to the black community not to lash out and act radically as they had been treated by the white community, but to instead respond with love and compassion. In the Civil Rights Document that we were required to read for class it says…

Introduction “Selma,” I think while meaning well, is another piece of counter revolutionary, ruling class propaganda. It is like a “how not to manual” in how not to make revolution, then and now. I was an activist in the days in question in this movie and all the thousands of revolutionary voices that were raised, back in the day, are more thoroughly crushed in this film than all the might of U.S. imperialist military, police, intelligence and public opinion creating machines…