Resistance to Injustice: Tent City & the Fayette Co. TN Civil Rights Movement
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A new documentary about the civil rights struggle in Fayette County, TN,
A new documentary from the Benjamin Hooks Institute and the University of Memphis featuring archival interviews and recreations dramatizing a series of civil rights events that took place in Fayette County, Tennessee from 1959 into the early 1970s. As a result of registering to vote, many black residents were evicted from the sharecropper housing that had been home to some families for generations
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Resistance to Injustice: Tent City & the Fayette Co. TN Civil Rights Movement is a local public television program presented by WKNO
Resistance to Injustice: Tent City & the Fayette Co. TN Civil Rights Movement
Resistance to Injustice - on WKNO
Preview | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
A new documentary from the Benjamin Hooks Institute and the University of Memphis featuring archival interviews and recreations dramatizing a series of civil rights events that took place in Fayette County, Tennessee from 1959 into the early 1970s. As a result of registering to vote, many black residents were evicted from the sharecropper housing that had been home to some families for generations
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Collage of voices "They were told after harvesting their crops, we don't need you anymore..." "The power structure didn't want Black people voting..." "They told you to move you were supposed to m.. by the 15th of January..." “Well nobody around who knows me would sell me anything..." "This black list consisted of names of Black people... "To give us power in the ballot box, we could get what we wanted, by getting folks, delivering folks in offi ###
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