Bloody Lowndes

Winner of the 2010 Clinton Jackson Coley Award for the best book on local history from the Alabama Historical Association, Jeffries’ Bloody Lowndes tells the inspiring story of the people of Lowndes County, a small Southern town, who organized a radical experiment in democratic politics in 1966. Bridging the gap between civil rights organizing and Black Power politics, this book offers a unique and nuanced look at the impact of this rural “bastion of white supremacy” on the national trajectory of radical civil and human rights organizing.