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Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power [Opens Dec. 2 in theaters.] Sam Pollard and Geeta Gandbhir's powerful, eye-opening, educational, inspirational, thought-provoking, languid-paced, 90-minute documentary that explores the struggle for black power in racism-prone, poverty-stricken Lowndes County, Ala., in the mid-1960s, which provided the roots of the Black Panther Movement that later took hold in California, the passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizers (such as Bob Moses, Stokely Carmichael, Judy Richardson, Joyce Bailey, William Vaughn, Ruby Sales, Wendell Paris, Courtland Cox, Mukasa Dada, Andrew Young, Jennifer Lawson, James Foreman, and Bob Mants) who fought for voting rights and Black power in Lowndes County, and consists of archival film clips and photographs and commentary by historian William Sturkey, author Hasan Kwame Jeffries, activist leader Martin Luther King Jr., journalist Van R. Newkirk II, former governor Paul B. Johnson Jr., SNCC advisor Ella Baker, and Lowndes citizens, including Margaret Davis, John Jackson, Catherine Coleman Flowers, John Hulett, Carolyn Haigler Ikenberry, Carl Golson, Lillian McGill, Josephine Mayes, Arthur Nelson, and Ed Moore King, Jr.   Redhead: Year: 2022 Rating:  NR View Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power on the Internet Movie Database