PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
African Americans in Fayette County did not have enough money to find housing after being evicted from their homes.
|
|
|
African Americans in Fayette County wanted to end school segregation.
|
|
|
African Americans in Fayette County wanted to protest working conditions.
|
|
|
African Americans in Fayette County wanted to protest Jim Crow laws.
|
Detailed explanation-1: -Tent City, also called Freedom Village, was an encampment outside of Memphis in Fayette County, Tennessee for African Americans who were evicted from their homes and blacklisted from buying amenities as retaliation for registering to vote during the Civil Rights Movement.
Detailed explanation-2: -One of those major efforts-registering black residents to vote-led to what was called Tent City. As a result of registering to vote, many black residents were evicted from the sharecropper housing that had been homes to some families for generations.
Detailed explanation-3: -The evictions continued, the number of homeless families rose and more tents were donated. According to one estimate, 345 families were displaced during the peak of the tent city movement. Most of them took refuge in donated tents on Towles’ or Beasley’s property.