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Evicted!: The Struggle for the Right to Vote
Alice Faye Duncan
Illustrator: Charly Palmer
Ages: 9+
Published: 2022
Publisher: Calkins Creek/Astra BFYR/Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 978-1-68437-979-8
Keywords: Tennessee, Tent City, Voting Rights, Sharecropping, Segregation, Jim Crow laws, poverty, Discrimination, 1950s, 1960s
An important event in Civil Rights history, the 1950s Fayette County Tent City movement in Tennessee, comes alive. Vivid, impressionistic acrylic paintings. Back matter.