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In 1959-60, a number of black Fayette County sharecroppers who participated in a voter registration drive were evicted from their lands. Many moved to Tent City, also called Freedom Village, where they lived in military surplus tents furnished by a local group. The first Tent City was established on County Road 195, five miles southwest of Somerville, and a second was located off Highway 57, approximately four miles east of Moscow, Tennessee.
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Somerville, Tennessee · United States