Tent City (Tennessee)
Encampment outside of Memphis in Fayette County, Tennessee / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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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