Books

Hasan Kwame Jeffries: Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt.

Documentary

Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power.

Videos

Courtland Cox oral history interview.

Eyes on the Prize: Lowndes County Freedom Organization.

Hasan Kwame Jeffries:

• Discussing his book, “Bloody Lowndes.”
• Bloody Lowndes (part 1 of 2).
• Bloody Lowndes (part 2 of 2).

SNCC Conference: Alabama bound : Selma, and the Lowndes County Black Panther Party.

For Teachers

Lesson plan: A Case Study of SNCC’s work in Lowndes County & the Emergence of Black Power.

Articles

Black Past: Lowndes Country Freedom Organization.

crmvet.org:

• Articles on Lowndes County by Freedom Movement Veterans. (See more here.)
• Photos from the Lowndes County freedom struggle.
• Cracking Lowndes County.
• The Murder of Jonathan Daniels
• Lowndes County: Roar of the Panther.
• The election in Lowndes County.

Lincoln Cushing: The Women Behind the Black Panther Party Logo.

Hasan Kwame Jeffries: SNCC, Black Power, and Independent Political Party Organizing in Alabama,1964-1966.

SNCC Digital: (Note: Each of these pages contains great primary source materials.)

• SNCC Makes Contact in Lowndes County.
• SNCC’s voter education efforts in Lowndes.
• Lowndes County Freedom Organization founded.
• Lowndes County Freedom Organization becomes Lowndes County Freedom Party.
• Lowndes County Freedom Party.
• John Hulett.
• Sidney Logan.
• Alice Moore.
• Jackson Family.
• More on Lowndes from SNCC Digital.

Wikipedia: Lowndes County Freedom Organization.

Zinn Education Project: Lowndes County and the Voting Rights Act.

Primary Sources

Courtland Cox: What Would it Profit a Man to Have the Vote and Not be Able to Control it?

crmvet.org:

• Collection of primary sources on the Lowndes movement.
• Photos from the Lowndes County freedom struggle.
• Articles on Lowndes County by Freedom Movement Veterans.
• Jimmy Rogers: An Experience with Violence in Lowndes County.
• Jimmy Rogers, interviewed by Bruce Hartford.
• Ruby Sales, Interviewed by Jean Wiley and Bruce Hartford.

Eyes on the Prize:

• Interview with John Hulett.
• Interview with John Jackson.
• Interview with Bob Mants.

Jack Minnis (head of SNCC’s research team): Lowndes County Freedom Organization: The Story of the Development of an Independent Political Movement on the County Level.

Liberator Magazine: Lowndes County Voter Fraud.

Lowndes County Freedom Organization:

• Political Education Comic Book, “Us Colored People.”
• Organizing flyer.

LCFO’s comic book get-out-the-vote series, 1966:

• Mrs. Alice Moore for tax assessor.
• Mr. Sidney Logan for Sheriff.
• Board of Education.
• Emory Ross for Coroner.

The Movement (SNCC Publication): Lowndes County Freedom Organization Leaders Talk about Their Party.

Southern Patriot: What They’re Saying in Lowndes County.

The Student Voice: Will the Panther Eat the Rooster?