001479766 000__ 06617nam\a22010935i\4500 001479766 001__ 1479766 001479766 003__ DE-B1597 001479766 005__ 20231026035110.0 001479766 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479766 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479766 008__ 230918t20092009nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479766 020__ $$a9780814743652 001479766 0247_ $$a10.18574/nyu/9780814743652.001.0001$$2doi 001479766 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)547728 001479766 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479766 0410_ $$aeng 001479766 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001479766 072_7 $$aHIS036040$$2bisacsh 001479766 08204 $$a323.11970761/465$$qOCoLC$$222/eng/20230216 001479766 1001_ $$aJeffries, Hasan Kwame, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut. 001479766 24510 $$aBloody Lowndes :$$bCivil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt /$$cHasan Kwame Jeffries. 001479766 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : : $$bNew York University Press, $$c[2009] 001479766 264_4 $$c©2009 001479766 300__ $$a1 online resource :$$b23 black and white illustrations 001479766 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479766 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479766 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479766 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479766 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tMaps and Illustrations -- $$tAbbreviations -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIntroduction -- $$t1. Conditions Unfavorable to the Rise of the Negro -- $$t2. I Didn't Come Here to Knock -- $$t3. We Ain't Going to Shed a Tear for Jon -- $$t4. I'm Going to Try to Take Some of the Freedom Here Back Home -- $$t5. We Gonna Show Alabama Just How Bad We Are -- $$t6. Tax the Rich to Feed the Poor -- $$t7. Now Is the Time for Work to Begin -- $$tEpilogue: That Black Dirt Gets in Your Soul -- $$tNotes -- $$tBibliography -- $$tIndex -- $$tAbout the Author 001479766 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479766 520__ $$aWinner of the 2010 Clinton Jackson Coley Award for the best book on local history from the Alabama Historical AssociationEarly in 1966, African Americans in rural Lowndes County, Alabama, aided by activists from the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), established an all-black, independent political party called the Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO). The group, whose ballot symbol was a snarling black panther, was formed in part to protest the barriers to black enfranchisement that had for decades kept every single African American of voting age off the county's registration books. Even after the passage of the Voting Rights Act, most African Americans in this overwhelmingly black county remained too scared even to try to register. Their fear stemmed from the county's long, bloody history of whites retaliating against blacks who strove to exert the freedom granted to them after the Civil War.Amid this environment of intimidation and disempowerment, African Americans in Lowndes County viewed the LCFO as the best vehicle for concrete change. Their radical experiment in democratic politics inspired black people throughout the country, from SNCC organizer Stokely Carmichael who used the Lowndes County program as the blueprint for Black Power, to California-based activists Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, who adopted the LCFO panther as the namesake for their new, grassroots organization: the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. This party and its adopted symbol went on to become the national organization of black militancy in the 1960s and 1970s, yet long-obscured is the crucial role that Lowndes County"historically a bastion of white supremacy"played in spurring black activists nationwide to fight for civil and human rights in new and more radical ways.Drawing on an impressive array of sources ranging from government documents to personal interviews with Lowndes County residents and SNCC activists, Hasan Kwame Jeffries tells, for the first time, the remarkable full story of the Lowndes County freedom struggle and its contribution to the larger civil rights movement. Bridging the gaping hole in the literature between civil rights organizing and Black Power politics, Bloody Lowndes offers a new paradigm for understanding the civil rights movement. 001479766 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001479766 546__ $$aIn English. 001479766 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. 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