Bloody Lowndes
Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt
Hasan Kwame Jeffries

"Jeffries has written the book historians of the black freedom movement have been waiting for. His beautifully written account rescues Lowndes County from its role as merely a backdrop to ‘Black Power,’ to being one of the key battlegrounds for democracy in the United States. Here are local people whose local struggles have contributed mightily to the kind of politics we desperately need in the Obama age—the politics of ‘freedom democracy,’ a politics born in Reconstruction, rooted in social justice and human rights, and honed in the Alabama cotton belt."—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

Read Hasan Kwame Jeffries's blog, filled with personal stories, archival photographs and original material from Lowndes County.
bloodylowndes.com

"A gem of a book. In its ingenious use of sources, its interpretive reach, its marvelous prose style, its wisdom and wit, Babysitter is a model of cultural history. It is also the best work I have read in years on twentieth-century gender politics, youth culture, sexuality, and family history. I cannot recommend it highly enough to scholars, students, and the general public."—David Nasaw, author of Children of the City: At Work and at Play

A fascinating insider’s look at the motivations, costs and consequences of deliberately violating the law as a strategy of social change.

"Missing Bodies focuses our attention on what is not there, and thus brilliantly illuminates just what is! This is a creative, thoughtful, exciting book, a fine contribution to the growing literature on the sociology of the body."&—Barbara Katz Rothman, author of Recreating Motherhood