An Intimate Book Reading and Conversation with Professor Hasan Kwame Jeffries,

Author of the newly released

Bloody Lowndes:
Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt
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Please join MoCADA as we welcome one of our own, Dr. Hasan Jeffries, with a special reading, conversation and signing of his new book, Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt, which tells the remarkable and oft-neglected story of the struggle for freedom in Lowndes County and its contributions to the larger civil rights movement.

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

7-9pm

MoCADA
80 Arts | The James E. Davis Arts Building
80 Hanson Place (corner of South Portland)
Brooklyn, NY 11217

USA

www.mocada.org

Tel: 718.230.0492 Email: info@mocada.org

This event is free and open to the public but seating is limited.

 

Bloody Lowndes tells the incredible story of the ordinary people and college age organizers from the Student Nonviolent Coordinat­ing Committee (SNCC) - led by a young Stokely Carmichael - who ushered in the Black Power era by transforming rural Lowndes County, Alabama from a citadel of violent white supremacy into the center of southern black militancy. They achieved this extraordinary feat by creating the Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO), an all-black, independent, political party that was also the original Black Panther Party. Bloody Lowndes has been praised as "the book historians of the black freedom movement have been waiting for" and as "an invaluable contribution to understanding current and future 'conversations' on race and politics."

About Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Professor Jeffries was born and raised in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. He earned a BA in history from Morehouse College in 1994 and a PhD in American history from Duke University in 2002. That same year, he relocated to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where he served as the Bankhead Fellow and spent one year at Alabama, teaching American history and African American history. He currently teaches African American history at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Hasan resides in Columbus, Ohio with his wife Rashida. They travel frequently to the South to visit friends, and return often to Brooklyn to visit family.