remember, in 1900, lowndes county had more than 5,000 registered black voters. ars later the county had only 57. lowndes county became known as bloody lowndes. the united states district attorney had been told if he valued his life, he better stay away from lowndes county. every black man, woman and child was a potential target of racial violence. lynching made it abundantly clear that public protests was foolishly dangerous. in 1935, the resettlement administration purchased a large plantation and divided it into small farms. that same year, 1935, three black men were lynched. that was for starting a sharecropper union. it was clear that lowndes county remained too dangerous to challenge white power openly. in fact, in 1947, my father, elmer bolling, changed his economic status, plus that of many other blacks in lowndes county. he was lynched for his achievements. seven children were left fatherless as a result. my oldest brother was 15, and i was five. our father began with a mule and a wagon, and before he was 39 years of age, he had a private plantation, a st

lowndes county is still one of the poorest counties in the nation and in dire need. alan: maybe even more of proof that we need to get back on the voting rights track, make sure we have the representation necessary. ajena, want to come to you. we had a conversation about the women's suffrage, the passage of the ratification of the 19th amendment, and we have had the statement from our colleague, betty pickett, rounding out that story. do you think there has been enough of a conversation nationally about the women's suffrage movement and the racial component of that, the racism in the movement, the opportunity for alliances across races, but thatrticular the incidents may be kept black women in a segregated position for a variety of reasons? have we had enough of a conversation about that? if so, what are the next step? -- what are the next steps? if not, how do we continue to highlight that story? ajena: i do not feel that there has been enough of a conversation, though we are making great strides in trying to bring it forward. as i mentioned, there have been several

lowndes county is still one of the poorest counties in the nation. >> maybe even more of the proof that we need to get back on the voting rights track, make sure we have the representation necessary. ajena, want to come to you. we had a conversation about the women's suffrage, the ratification of the 19th amendment, and we have had the statement from our colleague, betty pickett, rounding out that story. do you think there has been enough of a conversation nationally about the women's suffrage movement and the racial component of that, the racism in the movement, the opportunity for alliances across races, but the incidence that may be kept black women in a segregated position for a variety of reasons? having had enough of a conversation about that? if so, what are the next step? if not, how do we continue to highlight that story? >> i do not feel that there has been enough of a conversation, though we are making great strides in trying to bring it forward. as i mentioned, there have been several documentaries that have been premiered in recognition of the centennial. one that was put o

that was one of the way that the lowndes county people helped to protect the snic workers coming in. >> we just saw up on the screen the cover for dr. jeffrey's book and the sort of sandwich board that the organizer was wearing with the picture of the black panther. thank you for bringing that back up again. "move on over or we'll move on over you." that is a little bit of a different sentiment than "we shall overcome." it's unfortunate that this portion of history is a little less well known than other elements, but also the interesting story is these folks in lowndes county, they are the black panthers. because after their organization was formed and this symbol as their political symbol, they got a call from some of the bay area men in san francisco or in oakland asking if they could adopt that symbol for their use in something they were going to call the black party. we'll have everyone back at some point in time to talk about that history. ajena, i want to go to you, please. we're talking about the 19th amendment, women's suffrage, and wanted to get your thoughts on a women's su

liberty county with 173 with a military base there so there is a bit outweighing there so there is a bit outweighing the size of population. lowndesan county with 25, richmond, rockdale with 80. and i think that is the biggest ones. take those and add together and the balance will be about 4000 for the rest of the counties i did not name. so after that we have provisionals and i do have the initial provisional report for fulton county which is the largest one and can have the largest impact, the total provisional ballots received is 4869. they accepted 3603 so received is 4869. they accepted 3603 so they rejected 1256 of the provisional ballots i had on hand. the biggest chunks of those were the oi'ies the biggest chunks of those were the ones that were verified and the voter brought their id in and that was 1205 and voted at a precinct so they were inside the correct county and voted inside fulton county but at the wrong precinct, that is 2398. the unfortunate part is they voted out of precinct and essentially they can only vote on the things that we re can only vote on the things that were 011 can only vote on the things that we