WATCH: Jennifer Lawson speaks on the vision she had to design black panther billboards in Lowndes County.pic.twitter.com/7dbn5i5EBe
Lawson, an amateur artist, drew the illustrations for one of SNCC’s most valuable organizing tools in the county–a comic book which explained functions of various county offices in understandable terms.
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“We never … waited for someone else to do something, that if we needed something we created it,” Lawson explained.
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Before the 1966 election, SNCC was concerned that there would violence at the polls when Black residents cast their ballots. The LCFO had chosen a black panther as their symbol.
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“If somebody can get the lumber and make the sign,” Lawson volunteered, “I’ll draw a panther. I’m not a trained artist but I will draw a panther that big and I’ll […] write down ‘Vote for the Black Panther and then go home’ with an exclamation point.”
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It didn’t take long for her billboards to be “nicely embellished with bullet holes.”
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