Resistance to Injustice: Tent City & the Fayette Co. TN Civil Rights Movement

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