Evicted! : the struggle for the right to vote /
Struggle for the right to vote.
Alice Faye Duncan ; art by Charly Palmer.
- First edition.
- 63 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 61-62).
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.
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. Conveyed through interconnected stories and told through the eyes of a child, this book combines poetry, prose, and illustrations to shine light on this forgotten history.