Hasan Kwame Jeffries: One of the most remarkable struggles of the civil rights movement is an event that most people have never heard of — until now.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and his wife, Coretta Scott King, lead off the final lap to the state capitol at Montgomery, Ala., in 1965 as thousands of civil rights marchers joined in the walk to demand voter registration rights.One of the most important struggles of the civil rights movement occurred in rural Lowndes County, Alabama.As lifelong Lowndes resident Arthur Nelson explains in the new
In 1965, in immediate aftermath of Bloody Sunday, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led over 2,000 people from Selma to Montgomery to dramatize the determination of African Americans to vote. Indeed, what transpired in Lowndes County during the civil rights era was nothing short of remarkable. For more from Hasan, watch on “Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power,” Sunday at 10pm ET on MSNBC, and streaming on Peacock.
At a time when one of the major political parties has been taken hostage by a cult of personality, the Lowndes movement reminds us that the needs of ordinary people should always be placed above the political concerns of parties and the personal interests of politicians.
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