First Thursdays: “Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power”
Partners: MSP Film & MN Historical Society
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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 town with a vicious history of racist terrorism. In a town that was eighty percent Black but had zero Black voters, laws were just paper without power. This isn’t a story of hope but of action. Through first person accounts and searing archival footage, Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power tells the story of the local movement and young Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizers who fought not just for voting rights, but for Black Power in Lowndes County.
Come for the movie — and stay for the conversation, led this month by MSP Film programmer, Craig Laurence Rice, with Lowndes County Director, Sam Pollard. 
These conversations at the Capri on the Northside are always thoughtful and dynamic. Plan to stay, listen, speak up, enjoy.
AND…check out the outstanding slate of upcoming First Thursday Films including Nope, The Woman King, and more.
Be @ the movies! Noteworthy films with good conversation that follows each screening on the first Thursday of every month. The series is presented by MSP Film, the Capri, and the Minnesota Historical Society.