...for this new kind of independent politics. SNCC organizers worked closely with the Lowndes County Christian Movement for Human Rights (LCCMHR), mounting an aggressive countywide drive to register Black voters.
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“It now becomes necessary,” explained SNCC field secretary Courtland Cox, “to develop a political environment where the organization and the organizational participation of people become more important than [political parties].” Lowndes County was viewed as a testing ground...pic.twitter.com/lpqI9KZwSR
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For despite being 80% Black, only one Black voter was on the rolls in Lowndes County–John Hulett, the chairman of LCCMHR. SNCC field secretaries went from door to door every day while LCCMHR members tapped into their social networks, which together brought momentum to Lowndes.
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With this rapid expansion of Black voting power in the county, SNCC introduced the idea of an independent Black political party.pic.twitter.com/vdmkqGndwA
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SNCC researcher, Jack Minnis, discovered a Reconstruction-era statute that allowed qualified voters “to bring into existence a totally new political party at the county level.” John Hulett remembered...pic.twitter.com/7670gDmXeo
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“Stokely Carmichael and Courtland Cox and others got together and told us, according to Alabama law, if we didn’t like what the Democratic party or Republican party was doing in our county, we could form our own political organization, and it could become a political party.”pic.twitter.com/1t6bL2JH6N
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With SNCC’s technical support, local people formed their own organization, called the Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO) and chose a black panther as their logo.pic.twitter.com/7VtPcaPKM5
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John Hulett explained, “the black panther is a vicious animal who, if he was attacked, would not back up. It was saying we would fight back if we had to.”
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The LCFO empowered local Black citizens, who realized they could use their collective political might to control the local political institutions. “After forming our own political group today, we feel strong,” proclaimed Hulett. — via
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