About: Tent City (Tennessee)

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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.

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  • 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. (en)
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  • *Civil Rights Act of 1957 *Murder trial of Burton Dodson *All-white jury (en)
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  • 1960 (xsd:integer)
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  • the Civil Rights Movement (en)
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  • Fayette County and Haywood County in Tennessee (en)
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  • *Catalyst to pass Civil Rights Act of 1960 (en)
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  • *Fayette County Democratic Executive Committee *White Citizens Council *Ku Klux Klan (en)
  • *Civic and Welfare League **Fayette County Civic and Welfare League **Haywood County Civic and Welfare League *United States Commission on Civil Rights *National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (en)
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  • Tent City (en)
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  • 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. (en)
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  • Tent City (Tennessee) (en)
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