‘Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power’ News & Doc Emmy Noms

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July 27, 2023 – Participant congratulates the filmmakers and team behind Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power on two News and Documentary Emmy® Award nominations today!

The film has been nominated in two categories – Outstanding Research and Outstanding Editing. We are thrilled to share this nomination with all involved, and our partners at Peacock.

Read more about the nominations here, and share with your networks here.

About the Film
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.”