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Lowndes County and the road to Black Power

Lowndes County and the road to Black Power

DVD 2023

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. Th...

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Description:
1 videodisc (90 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
polychrome
digital
optical
surround
Dolby Digital 5.1
Dolby Digital 2.0
wide screen
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1
Target Audience Note:
E
Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated
Notes:
Originally released as a motion picture in 2022
Title from container
Editor, Viridiana Lieberman ; director of photography, Henry Adebonojo ; composer, Kathryn Bostic
Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King Jr., Ella Baker
DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0
For private home use only
Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH)
Audio track in English, captions in English
Control Number:
3233239
UPC:
738329261207
Other Authors:
Baker, Ella, 1903-1986, on-screen participant
Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998, on-screen participant
Devaney, Jessica, film producer
Fofang, Dema Paxton, film producer, screenwriter
Gandbhir, Geeta, film director
Greenwich Entertainment (Firm), publisher
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968, on-screen participant
Kino Lorber, Inc., publisher
Multitude Films, production company
Participant Media, production company
Peacock (Firm), broadcaster
Pollard, Sam, film director
Rouse, Anya, film producer
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