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Evicted! the struggle for the right to vote

This critical civil rights book for middle-graders examines the little-known Tennessee's Fayette County Tent City Movement in the late 1950s and reveals what is possible when people unite and fight for the right to vote. Powerfully conveyed through interconnected stories and told through the eyes of...

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Main Author: Duncan, Alice Faye (Author)
Other Authors: Palmer, Charly (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers, [2022]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
African Americans > Suffrage > Tennessee > Fayette County > Juvenile nonfiction.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > Juvenile nonfiction.
African Americans > Tennessee > Fayette County > Race relations > Juvenile nonfiction.
Civil rights movements > United States > Juvenile nonfiction.
Voter registration > Tennessee > Fayette County > Juvenile nonfiction.
Voter suppression > Tennessee > Fayette County > Juvenile nonfiction.
Fayette County (Tenn.) > History > 20th century > Juvenile nonfiction.
Informational works. > Juvenile.
Picture books.
Creative nonfiction > Juvenile.
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Table of Contents:
  • Mapping a movement
  • Tent city profiles
  • Prologue to freedom
  • Big Man blues
  • The legend of Burton Dodson
  • John the revelator
  • The ghost of Thomas Brooks
  • Harpman goes to war
  • Minnie joins the fight
  • The good shepherd
  • People in the tents
  • John and Viola
  • Charlie Outsider
  • Big Man speaks
  • Golden
  • Epilogue
  • Fayette County timeline.

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