- Collection:
- Nashville Public Library Digital Collections Portal: Civil Rights
- Title:
- Tent City "Home of the Brave," circa 1960
- Creator:
- AFL-CIO. Industrial Union Department
- Date of Original:
- 1960
- Subject:
- African Americans--Tennessee--Fayette County
Sharecroppers--Tennessee--Fayette County
Voter registration--Tennessee--Fayette County
Tenant farmers--Tennessee--Fayette County
Civil rights movements--Tennessee
African Americans--Civil rights--Tennessee
Evictions--Tennessee--Somerville
Fayette County (Tenn.)--Race relations
Fayette County (Tenn.)--Social conditions
Fayette County (Tenn.)--History - People:
- Helstein, Ralph
Towles, Shephard
McFerren, John - Location:
- United States, Tennessee, Fayette County, 35.19708, -89.41437
- Medium:
- pamphlets
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/tiff
- Description:
- Pamphlet of the story of "Tent City," Fayette County, Tennessee, circa 1960. This pamphlet is the result of an investigation by Ralph Helstein, president of the United Packinghouse, Food and Allied Workers, into racial struggle and injustice in Fayette County, Tennessee. Tent City is the story of several hundred African American families, sharecroppers, tenant farmers and day workers who were driven from their homes and faced eviction in the dead of winter in Fayette County, Tennessee, because they exercised their American right to register and vote. Forms part of the Civil Rights Ephemera Collection.
- Metadata URL:
- http://digital.library.nashville.org/u?/nr,569
- Rights Holder:
- U.S. and international copyright laws protect this digital content, which is provided for educational purposes only and may not be downloaded, reproduced, or distributed for any other purpose without written permission. Please contact the Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 37219. Telephone (615) 862-5782.
- Extent:
- 1 pamphlet : col. ; 6 x 9 in.
- Original Collection:
- Civil Rights Ephemera Collection, Special Collections Division, Nashville Public Library.
- Contributing Institution:
- Nashville Public Library (Tenn.). Special Collections Division
- Rights:
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