Lowndes County Freedom Organization

[2] The independent third party was formed by local African-American citizens led by John Hulett,[3] and by staff members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) under the leadership of Stokely Carmichael.

[5] 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,[5] Carmichael and the other SNCC activists who stayed with him in the county were inspired to create the LCFO with Hulett (who, since the banning of the NAACP in the state, had been active in Fred Shuttlesworth's Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights),[6] and other local leaders.

[7] Hulett, who was LCFO's chairperson, was one of the first two African American voters whose registration was successfully processed in Lowndes County.

[8] 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.

[12] The work of the political organization was examined in the documentary film Eyes on the Prize within the episode "The Time Has Come (1964–66)".