PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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African Americans in the area organized a tent city and local white people did not like it.
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African Americans who were evicted refused to buy food in local stores.
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African Americans who were evicted did not pay their mortgages or rent.
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African Americans in the area voted in an election and local white people did not like it.
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Detailed explanation-1: -28, 1960: Black Farmers in Tennessee Evicted for Registering to Vote. The year was 1960. Christmas was not merry in Fayette County, Tennessee. When Black sharecroppers registered to vote, white landowners in the West Tennessee county evicted the farmers from cropper shacks at the start of winter.
Detailed explanation-2: -By the end of 1965, a quarter of a million new Black voters had been registered, one-third by federal examiners. By the end of 1966, only four out of 13 southern states had fewer than 50 percent of African Americans registered to vote.
Detailed explanation-3: -How was African American voter registration affected by the Voting Rights Act of 1965? It increased significantly. was stronger than the first draft of the act. Who gave an historically important speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom?
Detailed explanation-4: -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. It began in 1960 and lasted about two years.