Bloody Lowndes - Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt

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In the mid-1960s, the Lowndes County Freedom Organization was formed in Alabama. Dr. Hasan Jeffries, an associate professor of history at The Ohio State University, will explain how the all-black, independent political party-- the original Black Panther Party-- affected the black power movement.