it was the county that the selma montgomery -- took place in lowndes county. selma is in dallas county in the next 50 miles of the march was through lowndes county before you go to montgomery and montgomery county. at the time that the march started through lowndes county in 1965 there were no african-american voters in lowndes county at all. 80% of the population was lack and there were no african-americans register to vote. john hewlett became one of the first two african-american people in lowndes county to register and it was 1965 before that happened. there was violence in lowndes county. larusso the detroit housewife became down for the march was murdered in lowndes county. a little bit after that jonathan daniels and wide episcopal priest who is supporting the movement in lowndes county was murdered in lowndes county. so it was a rough place and that was john hewlett's home. he became the most visible leader of the civil rights movement in lowndes county and actually a was one of the founders of what became the black and third-party which was an all-blac

boycott in 1955 and 56 on through the freedom rides, the birmingham movement in 1963 and the selma montgomery march in 65. but there are a lot of smaller stories scattered all around the state including here in mobile so i try to tell those as well. a lot of them were people i had never heard of and in many ways they were as ordinary as you are me except they did these amazing things under such stressful situations that existed at the time. and so it seemed to me that it was a movement of foot soldiers as it was of great leaders and so i wanted to