PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE STUDENT MOVEMENT OF THE 1960S
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Hooverville
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Voter
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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. It began in 1960 and lasted about two years.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-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.
Detailed explanation-4: -Community information, Braden, Gallaway, LaGrange, Moscow, Oakland, Piperton, Rossville, Somerville, Williston.