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Tent City: Stories of Civil Rights in Fayette County, Tennessee

The Movement People Issues Organizing Resources

Issues

Sharecropping

What is Sharecropping?

Daily Conditions

The Vote

Power of Voting

Desegregation

Segregated Life

Desegregating Fayette County Schools

School Integration

Case Study: A Fayette County Student and Activist

Share Your Story

Take Action

Share Your Story

Moving out of Shacks and into Tents

Civil Rights in the 21st Century

Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change

John McFerren Discusses the Power in Voting

2002 documentary project on Fayette County, TN: Special Collections, University of Memphis Libraries.