Summary
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... Full description
- 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.