EVERYBODY THINKS THE BLACK PANTHERS STARTED IN OAKLAND 🤦🏾♂️ HATERS WILL SAY ITS PHOTOSHOP BUT YOU CAN’T #PHOTOSHOP ALABAMA INTO HISTORY‼️The Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO), also known as the Lowndes County Freedom Party (LCFP) or Black Panther party, was founded during 1965 in Lowndes County, Alabama. The independent third party was formed by local African-American citizens led by John Hulett, and by staff members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) under the leadership of Stokely Carmichael. On March 23, 1965, as the march from Selma to Montgomery took place, Carmichael and some in SNCC who were participants declined to continue marching after reaching Lowndes County and decided to instead stop and talk with local residents. After word spread that Carmichael avoided arrest from two officers who ordered him to leave a school where he was registering voters after he challenged them to do so, Carmichael and the other SNCC activists who stayed with him in the county were inspired to create the LCFO with Hulett in the state. As the Voting Rights Act of 1965 allowed African Americans to register to vote, the objective of the party was to register African Americans in a county that was 80% black and none were registered to vote. Local residents and SNCC staff members decided to avoid joining the Alabama Democratic party because the state party was led by segregationist Governor George Wallace and employed the slogan "White Supremacy" represented by an image of a white rooster. Due to high rates of illiteracy among the black residents, an image of a black panther was adopted to identify party members of LCFO in contrast to members of the all-white Democratic party represented by a white rooster. SHOUTOUT @karlousm @chrisjonesfunny on the AT THE END OF THE DAY TOUR @nuface was there what you waiting on to see the show?!!?!? 🤷🏾♂️ #nufacewasthere #icantmakethisup #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #revolutionary #history #ancestors #picoftheday #photo #photooftheday #pictureoftheday #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #adobephotoshop #photomanipulation #knowledgeispower 👨🏾💻 @vipgoodie (at Lowndes County, Alabama) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpNO8dggZdS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=